Very Long Paths

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In the regex documentation there are multiple files with >150 character path lengths.

This isn't a problem in many installs. However on windows where there is a maximum path length limit of 256 characters, this doesn't leave a lot of breathing room for environments that don't put their boost install very near to the root of their drive.

All the files with issues in regex are in the docs in the background_information\performance directory, the longest being 184 chars at: .\libs\regex\doc\html\boost_regex\background_information\performance\section_Testing_simple_leftmost_longest_matches_platform_Windows_x64_compiler_Microsoft_Visual_C_version_14_0_.html

All these long (>150 char) paths could be fixed by: 1) Rename the "background_information" directory to "background" 2) Rename the "performance" directory to "perf" 3) Remove the "section_Testing_" prefix to all the files in the perf directory.

Regex isn't the library with the longest (limiting) path length in boost, but if Geometry fixes its github issue #396, then regex would be the long-pole.

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Attempt to link to Geometry issue, couldn't put in ticket due to spam filter.

​https://github.com/boostorg/geometry/issues/396

[John Maddock]

Fixed in develop.