Re: [R-pkg-devel] Justification and status of the 100-bytes path length limit.

2024-09-14 Thread Ivan Krylov via R-package-devel
В Fri, 13 Sep 2024 15:00:06 +0200 Iago Bonnici пишет: >     - Is the 100-bytes paths limitation only supposed to ensure > compatilbility with pre-POSIX.1-1998 `tar` files? There are also the Windows systems. While support for paths longer than 260 characters appeared in Windows 10 build 1607 a

[R-pkg-devel] Justification and status of the 100-bytes path length limit.

2024-09-13 Thread Iago Bonnici
Hello @r-package-devel,     Reading from the following guide, I understand that file paths in my R package should remain under 100 bytes long: https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-exts.html#Package-structure-1     The only explanation I could find stands within the same line in this docu