Currently our APIs (most of them moved to plugins i guess) still return UNC paths on Windows. For those unaware, those paths start with \\?\.
Most ecosystems seem to have problems with that, this includes the js frontend but also a multitude of sidecars. We've also already received reports about things built into Windows not being able to handle those.
Describe the solution you'd like
use dunce everywhere to safely remove the prefix. I doubt that this will cause any issues but even if, it'd be still less than the unc paths cause lol
Alternatives considered
do nothing and keep blaming the other languages' ecosystems for not being able to handle unc paths.
FabianLars
commented
7 months ago
Describe the problem
Currently our APIs (most of them moved to plugins i guess) still return UNC paths on Windows. For those unaware, those paths start with
\\?\.Most ecosystems seem to have problems with that, this includes the js frontend but also a multitude of sidecars. We've also already received reports about things built into Windows not being able to handle those.
Describe the solution you'd like
use dunce everywhere to safely remove the prefix. I doubt that this will cause any issues but even if, it'd be still less than the unc paths cause lol
Alternatives considered
do nothing and keep blaming the other languages' ecosystems for not being able to handle unc paths.
Additional context
No response