Right. This has come up many times. If we could fix it reasonably*, we would.
* Technically speaking we could probably rewrite everything to just use Win32 APIs and do all kinds of moving files from short paths to long paths to work around MSI API limitations... but that would make the code a real mess. _____________________________________________________________ Short replies here. Complete answers over there: http://www.firegiant.com/ -----Original Message----- From: Asbjørn Mikkelsen [mailto:asbj...@neslekkim.net] Sent: Monday, September 15, 2014 8:01 AM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] LGHT0284: Support for more than 260 characthers in Path? So, if Windows Installer api does not support it, does that mean that Light would not work? on the workstations where we develop and build, it works ok, but on the buildserver, since it's scoping the output from versioncontrol for each build, it crashes from time to time, very annoying, and this is 2014.. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Want excitement? Manually upgrade your production database. When you want reliability, choose Perforce Perforce version control. Predictably reliable. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=157508191&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
