Nicolai

2015-08-23 8:44 GMT-03:00 Nicolai Hess <nicolaihess@web.de>:

For those who had problems with pharo on windows and github based repositories,
I built a windows vm with support for long paths:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8yEahnuIem2bmxwdzJuUXFxVGM/view?usp=sharing

For browsing directories with large paths (FileList or Inspect),
you may need one additional change in the image (But I am not really sure about that) :

DiskStore>>initialize
�� super initialize.
�� maxFileNameLength := Smalltalk vm maxFilenameLength ifNil: [ 32767 ].

please test and give feedback.

Using Win 8.1, I confirm FileList tree now is reading directories beyond 260 limit, without need to #initialize DiskStore.

However there should be another concern with GitFileTree uncompression because loading Aconcagua/Chalten, etc with your new VM in a directory name with more characters, still signals File not found :(

Is the VM using the "Unicode-aware API"? According to this guys http://serverfault.com/questions/163419/window-256-characters-path-name-limitation such Win Unicode API would let VM to use the 32767 bricks

This wasn't as easy as I thought, and I had to make some more changes
for the file permissions (the stat-functions don't work for files with long paths).
Please test other file/folder operations.

Thank you Nicolai for your effort, I know it's hard to dive into depths with C.

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