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Refuse a game folder whose path leaves no room for the game's files.

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Windows and the build tools stop at 260 characters for a file's whole path, and a built game needs up to 128 below
its folder. A deeper folder made the build stop in the middle with a file "not found"; Begin Installation and the
install job now refuse it first and name both lengths.

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A path the Windows ANSI code page cannot hold breaks the MSYS2 tools, so the toolchain then goes to
`C:\NX2navi\toolchain` instead (`launcher/paths.py`).
Windows and the build tools stop at 260 characters for a file's whole path, and the files of a built game need up to
128 below the game folder (the prompt folders' resource table is the longest). Begin Installation and the install
job therefore refuse a game folder whose own path is longer than 130 characters, with both lengths
(`paths.long_path_problem`). Longer paths are not supported: the launcher does not use Windows' long path form, and
the compiler, the linker and `tar` would not take it.
## Installing
`jobs.InstallJob`, one row per step: