In Windows, filenames are not case sensitive, so
perl install
or
perl INSTALL
do the same thing. However, parl is case sensitive, so I get
$ parl scripts.par install
PAR.pm: Can't open perl script "install": No such file or directory at
C:/aperl58/site/lib/PAR.pm line 390.
when the actual filename is INSTALL inside scripts.par.
Is this intentional, or is it likely to change?
(We went through an argument last year in the R project about a very
similar issue. I argued that the case-insensitive behaviour was
correct, because you're asking the underlying file system to look up the
name, and you should follow whatever convention is used there. Others
thought this was closer to asking R to perform "INSTALL", and R is case
sensitive, so the command request should be too.)
Duncan Murdoch
