It's a security issue. If allowed to be long the setup.php would be vulnerable to a hacker typing in the url of a hijacking script as the admin directory name, since the script includes files from the admin directory for the final part of the setup. The needed files might be moved to the base directory some day, but it's not a priority.
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wanted to change from default of admin during setup and got an error message about the length of admindir
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It's a security issue. If allowed to be long the setup.php would be vulnerable to a hacker typing in the url of a hijacking script as the admin directory name, since the script includes files from the admin directory for the final part of the setup. The needed files might be moved to the base directory some day, but it's not a priority.