Re: [boost] [build] File / path lengths difficult to manage on Windows

On 14/11/2013 13:45, Quoth Simon Sasburg:

Even worse, windows explorer still seems to be using the ANSI api's (or it is itself introducing path limits?), and cannot reliably interact with files in long paths.

It's definitely not using the ANSI APIs but it's not using the extended syntax for the most part either. (And if you look at the docs for the shell library interfaces, most of the ones that accept complete pathnames are still limited to MAX_PATH. Although there are workarounds for that such as using item ids instead of filenames.)