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

[Nick Boldt (JIRA)]

    [ https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBDS-3044?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=12971285#comment-12971285 ] 

Nick Boldt commented on JBDS-3044:
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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...

> Align installation default path with installer filename
> -------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: JBDS-3044
>                 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBDS-3044
>             Project: Developer Studio (JBoss Developer Studio)
>          Issue Type: Feature Request
>      Security Level: Public(Everyone can see) 
>          Components: installer
>    Affects Versions: 8.0.0.Beta2
>            Reporter: Martin Malina
>            Assignee: Denis Golovin
>            Priority: Blocker
>              Labels: discuss
>             Fix For: 8.0.0.Beta3
>
>
> Now that Nick changed the installer filenames to jboss-devstudio in JBIDE-16871 (was jbdevstudio), shouldn't the default install path be changed similarly? Because it just went out of sync.
> This question is open for discussion. Nick pointed out some reasons against this suggestion:
> {quote}
> Martin Malina Re: changing the installation folder, I'll hold off on that change for the moment for a few reasons:
> a) Max is AFK, and will want to vet/veto this idea
> b) long paths for Windows users (80% of our user base) = bad news, especially considering how long some file paths can get already within Eclipse workspaces
> c) short paths for Windows (c:\jbdevstudio) & long paths for everyone else ~/jboss-devstudio) would be ill-advised from a documentation and cross-platform user experience
> So, either we stick w/ jbdevstudio, or we shorten to devstudio (losing the "jb" branding fragment). If we move to "jboss-devstudio" we increase the path by only 4 characters.
> Max Rydahl Andersen WDYT?
> {quote}



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