Support Request #102459, was updated on Fri 09/19/2003 at 11:47 You can respond by visiting: http://savannah.gnu.org/support/?func=detailsupport&support_id=102459&group_id=11
Category: CVS Status: Closed Priority: 5 Summary: CVS checkout of savannah module is broken By: lurk Date: Fri 09/19/2003 at 21:51 Logged In: NO Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/85 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/85 Yep there are actually quite a few of them still in use and they are making new ones all the time ;-) I really don't have a hard opinion one way or the other but the more I use the Mac I actually am starting to like it. I don't have to always do an ls to see if I need to look at readme, Readme, or README. My personal rule now is just to make sure that all my names differ on more than just case as a nod to portability. Just another couple of quick points. Yes I could have a partition which is formatted UFS and would be case sensitive on my Mac but that has some other problems which makes it not so nice. None of the FAT partitions are case sensitive either which may not matter for the most part if you don't care about windows. However, one important case where it does matter is for solid state disks. I have a little flash USB hard drive keychain I like to carry all my important projects around on and it is formatted as FAT32. Part of the utility of this little bugger is that I can stick it into any computer be it Linux, Mac OS or windows and access my files so reformatting it to be something incompatible with 2/3 of the OSes I have to deal with would be foolish. If one is relying on case alone to prevent name collisions then you cannot transfer your files to just any random flash drive. Well I guess you get the point ;-) Thanks for your help, -Eric ---------------------------------------------------------------------- By: yeupou Date: Fri 09/19/2003 at 17:24 Logged In: YES user_id=1896 Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3; Linux 2.4.18-27.7.x.cern; i686) Ouach, I was not aware that non-case sensitive fs was still in use :) Hum, several time we have directories with this kind of names. But aren't you have to use a case sensitive fs like ext3 or whatever with MacOS X (maybe not for / but a least for some partitions)? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: http://savannah.gnu.org/support/?func=detailsupport&support_id=102459&group_id=11 _______________________________________________ Message sent via/by Savannah http://savannah.gnu.org/ _______________________________________________ Savannah-hackers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/savannah-hackers
