[Vm-dev] Re: [Pharo-dev] issue with large file path on windows

Ben Coman btc at openinworld.com
Tue Sep 15 02:11:20 UTC 2015


On Sat, Sep 12, 2015 at 11:00 PM, Nicolai Hess <nicolaihess at web.de> wrote:
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> 2015-09-10 21:31 GMT+02:00 Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com>:
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>> Hi Nicolai,
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>>     I'm a bit concerned that this is creating drift with the "official" Cog source base at http://www.squeakvm.org/svn/squeak/branches/Cog.  Long filename support for win32 was recently added by Marcel Taumel in May of this year.  Are you tracking that?  How can we keep the sources harmonized?
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> Ok, I removed all of my code again and merged with sqWin32Directory.c and sqWin32FilePrims.c from the official cog source.
> I left only pharos additions for the fileattributes (posixpermissions) this should make it easier to merge which the
> squeak vm main branch (wrapped with pharo vm ifdefs).

What is the purpose of fileattributes? In the interests of further
minimising drift, is this useful to Squeak?
cheers -ben


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