Windows long path experimenting report

[Jesse Glick]

Adrian Buehlmann wrote:
>> there are unbalanced projects today that have 10^5 - 10^6 files
>> that are running into the limit.
> 
> Are any of these public? If yes, can you post an URL (or URLs)?

http://hg.netbeans.org/main/misc/

Only 5k files (so quick to experiment with) but some very long paths. I 
think the longest is:

.hg/store/data/enterprise/openesbaddons/contrib-imola/corba-bc/netbeansplugin/wsdl_extension/src/main/java/_m_e_t_a-_i_n_f/services/org.netbeans.modules.xml.wsdl.bindingsupport.spi._extensibility_element_template_provider.i