[Moin-user] Re: Flat versus nested structure

[Alexander Schremmer]

On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 16:25:33 +0100, Thomas Waldmann wrote:

>> I have URIs like that :)
>> http://example.org/foo/bar/toto/something/somethingelse/ averylongfilename
>> 
>> What MoinMoin will do is
>> 
>> foo(2f)bar(2f)toto(2f)something(2f)somethingelse(2f)averylongfilename
>> 
>> which might be a problem for certain filesystem.
> 
> For what filesystem is that a problem?

Windows in general, 256 chars.

> Usually there is a limit somewhere, but at least at 256..1024 chars.
> 
>> * MoinMoin does a nested structure too (I don't think it's the case now)
> 
> We don't do subpages per subdirectory yet, but we definitely think about 
> that. But this has quite some consequences, so this won't be a short 
> term or easy decision.

"Subpages per subdirectoy" would even make this problem worse.

Kind regards,
Alexander