Windows path length issues about exhale HOT 4 OPEN

In other cases, one can also give a reason with xfail:

@pytest.mark.xfail(sys.platform == "win32", reason="Paths my be too long for Windows.")

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Simple solution: Tell pytest to xfail that test if run locally on Windows.

Or I guess use the magic \\?\ shenangians

Won't work. I remember the issue was with Doxygen itself, not in the Python scripts. Without a workaround the issue would need to be fixed upstream.

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Ok good points, thanks! I think local xfail + a quick check in tox.ini printing a warning if that seems likely (so they know why).

Exhale could also choose different test directory names / paths to stage tests in. That sounds like a long term wish list item with the brief "fix it for local devs" being the priority.

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Exhale could also choose different test directory

Using a temp directory should work. Those are usually not nested too deeply. Using tmp_path from Pytest for example. It's something I could try later.

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