RE: [boost] Do we still care about file names > 31 characters?

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-11-26 16:49:31

At 02:53 PM 11/26/2003, Reid Sweatman wrote:

 >Minor cavil:  when you burn to CD, that's still the max name length, and
 >some of us like to run Boost from a CD in expanded form, at least, for 
the
 >documentation aspect.  But maybe I'm completely in the minority.

Good point. I'd forgotten about CD's.

   ISO-9660 level 2 and 3 limits are 32 characters
   ISO-9660/Joliet extensions allows up to 64 characters

Browsing various web sites found by Google makes it appear most modern 
operating systems support ISO-9660/Joliet. Would the ISO-9660/Joliet 
maximum of 64 characters work for you?

(I just tried burning a CD with the current Boost CVS tree, and it did fine 
on the filenames > 32 characters. But that's on a Win XP system that was 
all new hardward and software within the last year.)

Thanks,

--Beman