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Not that it helps today, but the upcoming w10 anniversary update is going to get rid of the 260 char path length limit.

Microsoft is waking up to the fact that developers mostly aren't using microsoft dev tools anymore. Hence, docker on windows, ubuntu on windows, redesigned env vars dialog, no more path length limit, nicer command prompt, etc...




Finally. But I wish microsoft would've done it sooner. Now a UNIX convert. Forever a convert. I'm no longer fighting my system to get shit done.


Cool! About time.




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