Re: [dev] Long paths on Windows

2008-04-11 Thread Stephan Bergmann
Oliver Brinzing wrote: Hi, a short question's regarding path's: Is it generally a good idea to have space's and the version number (for example OOo-dev 3.0, Basis 3.0,...) inside the oo install path's ? spaces: no idea if that is good or bad; when coming up with Basis 3.0 I just followed

Re: [dev] Long paths on Windows

2008-04-11 Thread Oliver Brinzing
Hi, spaces: no idea if that is good or bad; when coming up with Basis 3.0 I just followed prior art (OpenOffice.org 2.4) that's true, but till oo 2.4 one had a chance to install to a path without spaces and version numbering, like c:\programs\openoffice. that's not possible anymore ...

Re: [dev] Long paths on Windows

2008-04-11 Thread Stephan Bergmann
Oliver Brinzing wrote: Hi, spaces: no idea if that is good or bad; when coming up with Basis 3.0 I just followed prior art (OpenOffice.org 2.4) that's true, but till oo 2.4 one had a chance to install to a path without spaces and version numbering, like c:\programs\openoffice. that's not

Re: [dev] Long paths on Windows

2008-04-11 Thread Stephan Bergmann
Stephan Bergmann wrote: Applications on Windows are notorious for having problems with long file system paths. Some expert on Windows can probably give more insight into the topic in general. For OOo, the situation has always been that it can start to fail in mysterious ways if the

Re: [dev] Long paths on Windows

2008-04-10 Thread Oliver Brinzing
Hi, a short question's regarding path's: Is it generally a good idea to have space's and the version number (for example OOo-dev 3.0, Basis 3.0,...) inside the oo install path's ? This can be a trouble source too, if one needs to do installation using simple batch scripts ... Oliver GnuPG

[dev] Long paths on Windows

2008-04-09 Thread Stephan Bergmann
Applications on Windows are notorious for having problems with long file system paths. Some expert on Windows can probably give more insight into the topic in general. For OOo, the situation has always been that it can start to fail in mysterious ways if the installation path or the user

Re: [dev] Long paths on Windows

2008-04-09 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Stephan, Stephan Bergmann wrote (9-4-2008 11:47) [...] In short: If your OOo installation on Windows behaves strange, maybe you should install it into a shorter path. :( My OOo installation will suffer less than my OpenOffice.org installation. (hint). Regards, Cor -- The Year of 3