[Haskell-cafe] Strange error with cabal install on windows:

Steve Schafer steve at fenestra.com
Sun Jul 10 15:20:01 UTC 2016


On Sun, 10 Jul 2016 15:39:26 +0100, you wrote:

>Just out of curiosity, how many modules are too many for Windows?

It depends on the version of Windows you're running. Pre-XP, the command
line is limited to 2047 characters. Post-XP, the limit is 8191
characters.

There are also limits with regard to the nesting of directories.
Although the Unicode versions of the Windows APi functions support paths
up to 32,767 characters long, many of the command line processor
functions give up after about 260 characters.

-Steve Schafer

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