[jbosstools-issues] [JBoss JIRA] (JBDS-3044) Align installation default path with installer filename

[ https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBDS-3044?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.... ] Nick Boldt edited comment on JBDS-3044 at 5/28/14 10:36 AM: ------------------------------------------------------------ Martin did a quick test on OSX to see what the longest file paths are inside JBDS 8 Beta2: {quote} {code} find jbdevstudio-* |awk '{ print length($0) ; }'|sort|uniq|egrep "2.+" {code} shows 251 as the longest path on Mac so not really safe longest is ./studio/configuration/org.eclipse.osgi/949/data/c7ff8a0a591e0e90fe36069138e75f68/1012-1401176993555/org.springframework.ide.eclipse.core.java.ProjectClassLoaderCache$SourceAndOutputLocationResourceChangeListener$SourceAndOutputLocationResourceVisitor but that is spring and it's data {quote} So we're already pushing the limit here for long paths on Windows / NTFS... Related (with some LOLs): http://blog.codinghorror.com/filesystem-paths-how-long-is-too-long/ There are ways to achieve more-than-260-char paths, but do we want to? was (Author: nickboldt): Martin did a quick test on OSX to see what the longest file paths are inside JBDS 8 Beta2: {quote} {code} find jbdevstudio-* |awk '{ print length($0) ; }'|sort|uniq|egrep "2.+" {code} shows 251 as the longest path on Mac so not really safe longest is ./studio/configuration/org.eclipse.osgi/949/data/c7ff8a0a591e0e90fe36069138e75f68/1012-1401176993555/org.springframework.ide.eclipse.core.java.ProjectClassLoaderCache$SourceAndOutputLocationResourceChangeListener$SourceAndOutputLocationResourceVisitor but that is spring and it's data {quote} So we're already pushing the limit here for long paths on Windows / NTFS... -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.2.3#6260)