bdist_msi fails on files with long names

Lib/test/test_msilib.py

+""" Test suite for the code in msilib """
+import unittest
+import os
+from test.support import run_unittest
+import msilib
+
+class Test_make_id(unittest.TestCase):
+    #http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa369212(v=vs.85).aspx
+    """The Identifier data type is a text string. Identifiers may contain the
+    ASCII characters A-Z (a-z), digits, underscores (_), or periods (.).
+    However, every identifier must begin with either a letter or an
+    underscore.
+    """
+
+    def test_is_no_change_required(self):
+        self.assertEqual(
+            msilib.make_id("short"), "short")
+        self.assertEqual(
+            msilib.make_id("nochangerequired"), "nochangerequired")
+        self.assertEqual(
+            msilib.make_id("one.dot"), "one.dot")
+        self.assertEqual(
+            msilib.make_id("_"), "_")
+        self.assertEqual(
+            msilib.make_id("a"), "a")
+        #self.assertEqual(
+        #    msilib.make_id(""), "")
+
+    def test_invalid_first_char(self):
+        self.assertEqual(
+            msilib.make_id("9.short"), "_9.short")
+        self.assertEqual(
+            msilib.make_id(".short"), "_.short")
+
+    def test_invalid_any_char(self):
+        self.assertEqual(
+            msilib.make_id(".s\x82ort"), "_.s_ort")
+        self.assertEqual    (
+            msilib.make_id(".s\x82o?*+rt"), "_.s_o___rt")
+
+
+def test_main():
+    run_unittest(__name__)
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    test_main()
+