| Re: [stellation-res] Windows Issues |
On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 09:57:22AM +0000, Mark C. Chu-Carroll wrote: > > > Once all the areas have been identified, I will develop an initial > > > strategy for dealing with this set of problems and will present it for > > > review by the team before proceeding to implement any changes to deal > > > with this issue. > > > > I suggest mapping all Windows-related path information to lower case early > > on. > > This won't work. While windows considers pathnames to be case insignificant, > both users and Java compiler's *don't*. If we map all windows pathnames to > lower case, then checking a Java project out of Stellation will result in > something that con't compile. People also use case in filenames in ways > that are significant to them. Windows file matching is case insensitive. However the file creation is case preserving. IE if I ask for "FooBar.txt" to be created, that is the name that windows will store in its metadata. However, I can open that file by any variation of case in the file name: "foobar.txt", "FOObar.Txt"... But we should preserve the filenames exactly as they are introduced, not for Windows sake, but for porting to other platforms of the code we store in the repository. florin -- "If it's not broken, let's fix it till it is." 41A9 2BDE 8E11 F1C5 87A6 03EE 34B3 E075 3B90 DFE4
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