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RE: [stellation-res] Windows Issues
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>On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 09:38:19AM -0500, Florin Iucha wrote:
>> 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.
>>
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>Right you are. We went through all this with Jikes, doing a walk through
>the file system metadata, finding the actual user spelling, making the
>appropriate adjustment, and so on.
>
>
>I'll try to consolidate all path-related stuff in Files.java, so those who
>care about Windows (I don't) can then have their way with the code (as long
>as the Unix part still works).
>
>--
>Dave Shields, IBM Research, shields@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.
Do you think that I will be able to do any further useful testing at this
point
or am I likely to get bitten by this when I move on to test merging, saving
and restoring?
