On 6 Jul, 2009, at 20:38, Paul Moore wrote:
- Should distribution names be case insensitive on case insensitive filesystems? For comparison, module/package names are always case sensitive even on case insensitive systems.
I'd then go for case sensitive names for distributions as well, just to be consistent. But isn't the actual name in the PKG-INFO file anyway?
Do you mean really case insensive filesystems like DOS' FAT, or case preserving (HFS+ on OSX, NTFS on Windows)? For the latter you can at least get the original name back using os.readdir.
BTW. Actually determining if you are working with a case-sensitive fileystem requires filesystem access, os.path.normcase is hopelessly naieve in that respect. I'm reguarly dealing with NFS mounted filesystems on OSX systems, which means that parts of a path are case preserving (the HFS+ filesystem upto the mount point) and other parts are truly case sensitive (paths on the NFS mounted filesystem originating on a Linux server).
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