On 10/1/2006 4:30 PM, hadley wickham wrote: >> Requiring Perl script names to be specified in a case-sensitive way >> doesn't affect the R build process, but it does mean that a script >> written on Windows is slightly more likely to work when someone runs it >> on another platform. There's an "install" command in at least some >> flavours of Unix that would be invoked instead of R's INSTALL script if >> you said "R CMD install" on one of those platforms, and that's not a >> good thing. > > Will this be changing on OS X too? My version of 2006-09-20 r39433 > accepts either upper or lower case commands.
I think OS X uses the same scripts as other Unix platforms. So if they're happy working on a case-insensitive file system, it's unlikely we'll force a change, whether it would be a good idea or not. In fact, I'm fairly ambivalent about this one: I'm a long-time believer in case-insensitivity. I'd prefer if R were case-insensitive in all respects. However, it's not, so consistency pulls me to case-sensitivity. Duncan Murdoch ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel