Yeah, windows is a hydra of weirdness, where some things fully support longpaths, but random things will come up that don’t, or fail to properly check and handle things, because no one ever got around to fixing it.
But even the linux kernel will quickly start having problems if one starts having long filenames with multi-bit unicode characters, that 255 bit size max can go fast. Many filesystems for linux actually support larger filenames than what the kernel does.
That’s excusable if the product is made by over burdened open source volunteers. One Drive is generating revenue for Microsoft, yet they still cannot be bothered to shore up a product in the spotlight.
Some of the grievances are highly reported for years, but nobody seems to care.
Got bit by this(1) clown that decided to do a crazy long version number as a joke and release it in pypi. Broke a few local pypi caches. Breakdown in the github issue at (2). So ... pobody's nerfect.
Yeah, windows is a hydra of weirdness, where some things fully support longpaths, but random things will come up that don’t, or fail to properly check and handle things, because no one ever got around to fixing it.
But even the linux kernel will quickly start having problems if one starts having long filenames with multi-bit unicode characters, that 255 bit size max can go fast. Many filesystems for linux actually support larger filenames than what the kernel does.
That’s excusable if the product is made by over burdened open source volunteers. One Drive is generating revenue for Microsoft, yet they still cannot be bothered to shore up a product in the spotlight.
Some of the grievances are highly reported for years, but nobody seems to care.
This is not just a Windows thing. Plenty of Unix software struggles with long paths as well.
Got bit by this(1) clown that decided to do a crazy long version number as a joke and release it in pypi. Broke a few local pypi caches. Breakdown in the github issue at (2). So ... pobody's nerfect.
1) https://pypi.org/project/uselesscapitalquiz/ 2) https://github.com/pypa/bandersnatch//issues/1200#issuecomme...