D851: [RFC] setup: increase MAX_PATH limit on Windows 10 Anniversary Update

[abuehl (Adrian Buehlmann)]

abuehl added a comment.


  In https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D851#14301, @indygreg wrote:
  
  > In https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D851#14300, @abuehl wrote:
  >
  > > What about file I/O done via Python lib (e.g. python27.dll)?
  >
  >
  > I /think/ this works at the process - not DLL - level. But I need to test on a Windows machine to be sure. One of the reasons this is marked RFC.
  
  
  Maybe, but what does the Python library itself do with long paths?
  What do you expect from calling e.g. os.unlink with a long path? Can the Python lib handle it?

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