Extracting Arduino IDE ZIP package fails: "Path too long"

[sjh114961]

Describe the bug
Getting a path too long unzipping.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:
Unzip package in windows 10

Expected behavior
No error

Screenshots

Desktop (please complete the following information):
Windows 10 Pro
version 10.0.18362 build 18362

Additional context
None

[kittaakos]

Getting a path too long unzipping.

There is not much we can do about it, try to extract the app to C:\. Let us know if it still does not work.

[sjh114961]

I installed it on the "c:" and that work. The answer is to shorten your name to a much more reasonable size.

[alranel]

@sjh114961 what path where you initially trying to unzip in?

[alranel]

I see that the file with the longest name in the Windows package is ./resources/app/plugins/vscode-yaml/extension/node_modules/yaml-language-server/out/server/node_modules/vscode-languageserver-protocol/node_modules/vscode-languageserver-types/tsconfig.esm.json which is 194 characters long. @kittaakos do you think that we can't really do much about this?

By the way, maybe would this be solved when we stop distributing the application as a zip file and we provide a proper installer instead?

[kittaakos]

do you think that we can't really do much about this?

Unfortunately, yes. This path comes from a VS Code extension for the YAML language as-is: https://github.com/redhat-developer/vscode-yaml

We cannot change the paths, as Node.js might require them when it runs the VS Code extensions. I will ask around in the Theia community just to make sure I am not missing something and will update this thread.

If the problem occurs only when unzipping the app and not at runtime:

• a proper app installer could help,
• or as a temporary workaround, here are a few threads describing how to enable long path support on Windows 10:
  • https://thegeekpage.com/fix-error-0x80010135-path-too-long
  • https://superuser.com/questions/1119883/windows-10-enable-ntfs-long-paths-policy-option-missing
  • https://winaero.com/blog/how-to-enable-ntfs-long-paths-in-windows-10

[kittaakos]

As for now, we decided to drop the YAML language support from the application. This means the users will lose all the language features (validation, content assist, hover) in the CLI config editor. This is unfortunate, but we have to replace the CLI config editor with some proper UI anyways.

I have opened an upstream issue: redhat-developer/vscode-yaml#336

CC: @ubidefeo @rsora