On Thu, 10 Apr 2008, Mark J. Reed wrote: > On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 3:22 PM, Alexander K. Hansen > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Oops--should have said: >> >> Mine's a PowerPC, OS 10.5.2, running on case-sensitive HFS. > > Case-sensitive HFS? Are you mad, man? :) > -- > Mark J. Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Regardless of the arguments from a user point of view, it is sloppy practice to rely on case-insensitivity for code to work. And the Apple HFS+ case insensitity is implemented at a fairly high level, it isn't hard to have system calls that beat it. Before I converted to case sensitive, a (paid for) piece of 3rd party software managed to create two prefs files, ProductName.plist and Productname.plist, in the same folder. They had completely different content and were both used to store useful settings. Of course, it made back-up to another HFS+ case insensitive file system fail. After I converted to case sensitive, the same software required a couple of symlinks to correct the sloppy naming of the executables...but I was happier overall with smoothly working back ups. I work in a linux dominated environment, that's why I run case sensitive. I have no strong feelings about what is best for users, but I do think that programmers should remember that it is a "case-insensitive *case-preserving*" file system, and thus they should always take care to preserve case. -- Viv ------------------------------------------------ Dr Viv Kendon http://quantum.leeds.ac.uk/~viv Quantum Information Physics & Astronomy University of Leeds ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
