>Is it really > that hard to write the paths with the correct case?
Well...at the risk of sounding incredibly lazy or anal...yes, it is kind of a pain. I've been building NAnt files for a variety of projects and making sure that I match case really has been a pain. On the more philosophical side, I think the tool really should match the semantics of the platform. As as Windows user, I'm very accustomed to not having to worry about casing in file names. When debugging problems, it's not really something I think about. And that's really the key thing in my mind - it's another place for potential user error that can be easily eliminated. As an example of the issue, consider the vb6 task. In that task, you specify sources and references that are used for dependency checking, but not actually used to build the project. If you get the case wrong in the build file, there's no real indication of the problem - it just won't rebuild the project because it doesn't think any of the dependencies have changed. Any task that does something similar (uses filesets for dependency checking) will be prone to this error. BTW, I've already made a first cut at automatically determining case-sensitivity of a file system through PInvoke. If you're interested in it, I can submit it. If you'd rather go with the nant.config setting, that's OK with me too. --- Gerry Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm in favor on the config stuff for defining how > tasks run. The > complier tasks beg for this feature. > > I'm not sure why we need case insensitivity in > filesets. Is it really > that hard to write the paths with the correct case? > If I'm missing > something please bring it up. If its really a big > issue than we could > add it as a setting to the nant.config. > > Bringing up old business is a good thing. I've got > so many things going > on I about the only thing I can do on nant is write > email. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > Sponsored by: > ThinkGeek at http://www.ThinkGeek.com/ > _______________________________________________ > Nant-developers mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nant-developers __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Jabber Inc. Don't miss the IM event of the season | Special offer for OSDN members! JabConf 2002, Aug. 20-22, Keystone, CO http://www.jabberconf.com/osdn _______________________________________________ Nant-developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nant-developers
