* Zefram <zef...@fysh.org> [2012-04-03T09:21:16]
> Ricardo Signes wrote:
> >                               resolving conflicts, then about fixing PAUSE 
> > to
> >treat permissions case insensitively.
> 
> Eeek!  That would not be fixing anything, that would be breaking it!
> 
> Perl package and module names are case-sensitive.  That Perl doesn't
> adequately encode (mangle) these names for case-incapable filesystems
> is a bug.  We should not pander to that bug; we should fix it.

Until there is a fix for the bug, we should protect against it causing huge
problems.  This is the single entry point for protecting against it until there
is a more systematic solution.

-- 
rjbs

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