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Was going to say the situation with path lengths on Windows is mostly gone today, but it does still pop up on the odd occasion. For example the built in .zip f
by jonathanlydall 2y ago
Was going to say the situation with path lengths on Windows is mostly gone today, but it does still pop up on the odd occasion.
For example the built in .zip file support can’t extract long paths (7-zip however has no issue).
Also my Git client of choice (TortoiseGit) doesn’t fully handle long paths.
But day to day long paths on Windows is fortunately not really an issue any more and they’ve been steadily improving support over the years.
Despite generally being a fan of Windows, before Windows 10 the long path situation was infuriating, they even had a blog post acknowledging it’s a problem, but also stating it was going to be very non trivial to fix and as such they didn’t have any particular plans to fix it.
I suspect that WSL made the limitation more regularly painful enough that they could convince managers that it’s something that had to get fixed.
Windows Terminal was probably also motivated by WSL.