[p4] Windows file name length issues

[Patrick Bennett]

David Weintraub wrote:
> Let me restate my question, if I am using Perforce on Windows Vista,
> do I run into the same problems I would on Windows XP with the
> MAX_PATH limitation?
With Perforce itself?  That is an issue with how Perforce calls the 
Win32 API's in the P4 API and various clients.
If they're calling the A versions explicitly and relying on MBCS for 
Unicode support (yuck), it's a very simple matter for them to instead 
use the xxxW versions directly always passing (or converting to) UTF-16 
[which the W versions expect].  If they still want to support Win9x 
clients, then it's easy enough to abstract that way and only call the 
xxxW api's (which aren't in Win9x) by dynamically loading them upon 
detection of an NT-class OS. 

Patrick Bennett