106271 - Support long file names on modern Mac OS (switch to FSRef)

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 95481

(Core Graveyard :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[Andrew Thompson]

(do we really not have a bug on this? DUPE ME!)

We should support long filenames. Mac OS X and most modern Mac OS 8.X and 9.X
support 255 character filenames. We bump into this all over the place (JavaDoc,
dialog boxes, Composer) and it would be best to just support long filenames.

I'm not sure if this would effect our minimum platform requirements or not. It
*may* bump them to 9.0. I hope not. How many Mac OS 8.X users do we have anyway?
(seriously, are there statistics?)


I think this invloves switching the various ns(I)File(Spec) classes from Apple
FSSpec datastructures to FSRefs. This is probably not trivial.

Comment 1

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

->pink. retriage?

Comment 2

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

i think conrad already has this bug

Comment 3

[Conrad Carlen (not reading bugmail)]

This will be taken care of in bug 95481.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 95481 ***

Comment 4

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

mass verification of duplicate bugs: to find all bugspam pertaining to this, set
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if you think this particular bug is *not* a duplicate, please provide a
compelling reason, as well as check a recent *trunk* build (on the appropriate
platform[s]), before reopening.