Bug#690410: MAXPDSTRING used like PATH_MAX

2013-01-23 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
> i was mainly referring to your objection of changing MAXPDSTRING due to > limitations of MAX_PATH. anything regarding this? My objection is that its a big unknown what will happen and this is supposed to be a releases candidate situation. All sorts of things are done based on MAXPDSTRING, and

Bug#690410: MAXPDSTRING used like PATH_MAX

2013-01-23 Thread IOhannes zmölnig
On 01/23/2013 10:18 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: Changing MAXPDSTRING will affect everything in Pd, and as another long time upstream developer, I've never heard of anyone changing it. It does not seem like a change to make in the final phase of the release cycle. I think it makes much mo

Bug#690410: MAXPDSTRING used like PATH_MAX

2013-01-23 Thread IOhannes zmölnig
On 12/09/2012 07:54 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: Hey Roland, Good to see you working on Pd too :) About your patch, I think increasing MAXPDSTRING is dangerous because Pd uses MAXPDSTRING as the max path length as well. I think Debian's maximum path length is quite a bit shorter than 1

Bug#690410: MAXPDSTRING used like PATH_MAX

2013-01-23 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
Changing MAXPDSTRING will affect everything in Pd, and as another long time upstream developer, I've never heard of anyone changing it. It does not seem like a change to make in the final phase of the release cycle. I think it makes much more sense to remove the new thing that's triggering the i

Bug#690410: MAXPDSTRING used like PATH_MAX

2013-01-23 Thread IOhannes zmölnig
On 01/23/2013 09:46 PM, IOhannes zmölnig wrote: On 12/09/2012 07:54 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: Hey Roland, Good to see you working on Pd too :) About your patch, I think increasing MAXPDSTRING is dangerous because Pd uses MAXPDSTRING as the max path length as well. I think Debian's maxi

Bug#690410: MAXPDSTRING used like PATH_MAX

2012-12-09 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
Hey Roland, Good to see you working on Pd too :) About your patch, I think increasing MAXPDSTRING is dangerous because Pd uses MAXPDSTRING as the max path length as well. I think Debian's maximum path length is quite a bit shorter than 1 bytes. Its not a good situation, I know, but that