On 27 February 2012 18:58, Jürgen Hestermann wrote: > >> Essentialy, case insensitive filesystems are less problematic. >> > > No, just the opposite. The problems are only moved (and increased) from the > techie level (where it should belong to) to the user.
No, just the opposite. :-) See my earlier message about various examples of "test.txt". There is no reason a end-users should be subjected to a 101 various spellings of a file, when all the user wanted to do was open a file named "text dot t x t". Also see my point about Mac OS X and Windows (the one that has 95% of the computer market). I have worked all day today on my system after I have done the JFS conversion on Friday, to be case insensitive. I have recompiled FPC, Lazarus, MSEide, fpGUI, tiOPF... none gave any problems. I did new git clone and git pull and git commit commands without any problems. I have searched for files using various tools or applications - which now finally works well. I have opened various ODT documents which reference external images etc - again no problems. I did find-in-files searches using various programmer editors - again no problems. So far I am very happy with the switch, and the knowledge that I can't have duplicate source code files like Learner.pas and learner.pas in the same directories any more. Thus FPC and Lazarus can't get confused about them either. It's a win-win all the way. Clearly 99% of the computer market (that's Windows+Mac OS X usage count) can't be all wrong. I'm also happy to say that the state of the art file system, that's ZFS, also has an option to enable case insensitive usage. Brilliant, because I want to use FreeBSD with ZFS pretty soon. To all the other that still think case sensitive file systems make sense, please do some Google searching. There are so many problems listed, I still can't believe Linux people use case sensitive file systems. Another example: web servers on Unix/Linux. If the user types the url with say Index.HTML, that is different to index.html. Apache has a special "spelling" module to overcome this issue. So now apps have to fix issues due to file systems! -- Regards, - Graeme - _______________________________________________ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit http://fpgui.sourceforge.net _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
