What are you using for a CI engine? Jenkins and CruiseControl.NET allow for doing custom workspace roots that can help shorten your path lengths.
Stephen Tunney Nuance Communications, Inc. Solutions Architect, Imaging Division Waterloo, Ontario, Canada stephen.tun...@nuance.com 519-880-7463 Office NUANCE.COM The experience speaks for itself ™ -----Original Message----- From: Asbjørn Mikkelsen [mailto:asbj...@neslekkim.net] Sent: September-15-14 11:01 AM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] LGHT0284: Support for more than 260 characthers in Path? So, if Windows Installer api does not support it, does that mean that Light would not work? on the workstations where we develop and build, it works ok, but on the buildserver, since it's scoping the output from versioncontrol for each build, it crashes from time to time, very annoying, and this is 2014.. On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 4:43 PM, Rob Mensching <r...@firegiant.com> wrote: > Win32 pretty consistently supports that syntax. .NET Framework pretty > consistently does not. IIRC, Windows Installer API never supports it. > IOW, we are mostly SOL. > > _____________________________________________________________ > Short replies here. Complete answers over there: > http://www.firegiant.com/ > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Tunney, Stephen [mailto:stephen.tun...@nuance.com] > Sent: Monday, September 15, 2014 7:15 AM > To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] LGHT0284: Support for more than 260 > characthers in Path? > > Does prepending the path with " \\?\" help out at all? > > > http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bclteam/archive/2007/02/13/long-paths-in-net-p > art-1-of-3-kim-hamilton.aspx > > > Stephen Tunney > Nuance Communications, Inc. > Solutions Architect, Imaging Division > Waterloo, Ontario, Canada > stephen.tun...@nuance.com > 519-880-7463 Office > NUANCE.COM > The experience speaks for itself (tm) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > -------- > Want excitement? > Manually upgrade your production database. > When you want reliability, choose Perforce Perforce version control. > Predictably reliable. > > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=157508191&iu=/4140/ostg. > clktrk _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > -- mvh Asbjørn ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Want excitement? Manually upgrade your production database. When you want reliability, choose Perforce Perforce version control. Predictably reliable. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=157508191&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Want excitement? Manually upgrade your production database. When you want reliability, choose Perforce Perforce version control. Predictably reliable. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=157508191&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
