vs 160 characters for just a directory path.
From: Steven Scott
Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2023 12:11 PM
To: Vladimir Dergachev
Cc: McGrath, Justin M; r-package-devel@r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R-pkg-devel] Wrong mailing list: Could the 100 byte path
lso leaves plenty of space regardless where they choose to
extract the files.
From: Dirk Eddelbuettel
Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2023 9:13 AM
To: Tomas Kalibera
Cc: Dirk Eddelbuettel; McGrath, Justin M; Ben Bolker; Martin Maechler;
r-package-devel@r-p
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From: Dirk Eddelbuettel
Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2023 8:59 AM
To: Tomas Kalibera
Cc: McGrath, Justin M; Ben Bolker; Martin Maechler;
r-package-devel@r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R-pkg-devel] Wrong mailing list: Could the 100 byte path length
limit be lifted?
On 13 December 2023 at 15:32
. There is no reason today
to reject packages with ustar compatible paths that are not v7 compatible.
Best wishes,
Justin
From: Tomas Kalibera
Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2023 8:32 AM
To: McGrath, Justin M; Ben Bolker; Martin Maechler;
r-package-devel@r-project.org
check reports a NOTE?
Best wishes,
Justin
From: Martin Maechler
Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2023 2:22 AM
To: Ben Bolker; McGrath, Justin M
Cc: Simon Urbanek; Duncan Murdoch
Subject: Re: [R-pkg-devel] Wrong mailing list: Could the 100 byte path length
limit be lifted?
>&g
the appropriate
list, but if you don't think so, I can instead ask on R-devel.
Best wishes,
Justin
From: Martin Maechler
Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2023 10:13 AM
To: McGrath, Justin M
Cc: r-package-devel@r-project.org
Subject: Wrong mailing list: [R-pkg
We include other software in our source code. It has some long paths so a few
of the files end up with paths longer than 100 bytes, and we need to manually
rename them whenever we pull in updates.
The 100 byte path limit is from tar v7, and since POSIX1.1988, there has not
been a path length
