Re: [Caml-list] Re: GODI available for download

[David Brown <caml-list@davidb.org>]

On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 02:49:32AM +0200, Gerd Stolpmann wrote:

> > One question is, does GODI really require that?  HFS preserves the case
> > of filenames, and usually you can't tell it is case insensitive.  Only
> > if you try to create two filenames that differ only in case do you
> > notice the problem.
> 
> I can imagine that certain checks do not work properly, so maybe one or
> the other error condition is not detected, or maybe filename
> manipulations do not work always.

In all of the programs I have worked with on case-preserving
case-insensitive, only a few have ever failed.

  - Old versions of perl generated both a 'makefile' and a 'Makefile'.
    This has long been corrected.
  - OpenCM creates directories 'A', and 'a'.  It actually works, since
    the filenames probably won't collide, but the resultant tree can't
    be moved to a case-sensitive filesystem.

I have heard of one other, and it was fairly trivial to fix.

I'm guessing that there is nothing in GODI that cares.

Dave

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