In article <aanlktiko1hd_axwboesam-3mq85tw8p1scmwot96x...@mail.gmail.com>, Brett Cannon <br...@python.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 13:04, Ned Deily <n...@acm.org> wrote: > > In article <e1pawh0-0001py...@dinsdale.python.org>, > > brett.cannon <python-check...@python.org> wrote: > > [...] > >> summary: > >> Point out that OS X users need to change examples to use python.exe > >> instead > >> of python. > >> Once Python is done building you will then have a working build of Python > >> that can be run in-place; ``./python`` on most machines, ``./python.exe`` > >> -on OS X. > >> +on OS X (all examples throughout this documentation say ``./python`` but > >> +implies you choose the proper name based on your OS). > > > > That's true on OS X if you are using a case-insensitive file system. > > But wIth the newer, case-sensitive HFS+, for example, you get ./python. > > Are you thinking of UFS, because I am running HFS+ and I still get > python.exe since it's case-preserving. No, not UFS. Since at least 10.4, OS X has supported the creation of at least four variants of HFS+ via Disk Utility.app or disktutil(8). The 10.6 version of diskutil added a handy way to list all available file systems: $ diskutil listFileSystems Formattable filesystems [...] -------------------------------------------------------------------- PERSONALITY USER VISIBLE NAME -------------------------------------------------------------------- [...] HFS+ Mac OS Extended Case-sensitive HFS+ Mac OS Extended (Case-sensitive) (or) hfsx Case-sensitive Journaled HFS+ Mac OS Extended (Case-sensitive, Journaled) (or) jhfsx Journaled HFS+ Mac OS Extended (Journaled) (or) jhfs+ These days, one of the latter two is used to format the primary file system where OS X resides: I believe journaled is a requirement from at least 10.5 on, case-sensitive is optional. I've been using "jhfsx" for my primary development machine since 10.5 was released a few years ago. Since it is a file system type, AFAIK it is necessary to re-initialize the partition and reload files on it. > Regardless, I will add a note about the case-sensitivity. Thanks! -- Ned Deily, n...@acm.org _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
