Ticket #1155 (closed defect: wontfix)

Opened 10 months ago

Last modified 4 months ago

Packaging: Windows fails unzipping package because of long path names

Reported by: Jani Laakso Owned by: Jani Laakso
Priority: major Milestone: 5.0.0-beta
Component: Packaging Version: 5.0.0-pre
Keywords: Cc: marko.gronroos@…
Known Issue description:
Hours estimate: Deadline (dd.mm.yyyy):
Known Issue version (since): Known Issue title:
Hours done: Depends to:
Affects documentation: yes
Known Issue workaround: Install 7-Zip or some other good unzip program.
Affects release notes: yes Contract:

Description

We got paths like 

itmill-toolkit-5.0.0-alpha-2/WebContent/ITMILL/widgetsets/com.itmill.toolkit.demo.colorpicker.gwt.ColorPickerWidgetSet/com.itmill.toolkit.demo.colorpicker.gwt.ColorPickerWidgetSet-xs.nocache.js

that are not extracted by winrar because they are longer than 260 characters.

I doubt we can do much for this issue, document it.

Change History

Changed 10 months ago by Jani Laakso

  • status changed from new to closed
  • resolution set to wontfix

Changed 4 months ago by Marko Gronroos

  • known_issue_workaround modified (diff)
  • summary changed from Packaging: WinRAR fails unzipping package because of long path names to Packaging: Windows fails unzipping package because of long path names

This problem occurs at least with the default unzip in Windows XP and Vista. In Vista, it is not just a problem with too long full filenames (path+filename), but just too long filenames (about 60 characters) cause the uncompression to fail.

The problem may occur also with WinRAR (the original for this ticket).

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