[fpc-pascal] Re: FPC with case insensitive file system under Linux

2012-02-27 Thread Virgo Pärna
On Sat, 25 Feb 2012 17:35:38 +0100, Jürgen Hestermann juergen.hesterm...@gmx.de wrote: I wholeheartly agree with you on case sensitive file names. It's a crap. I never understood why they created such a nonsense. Case sensitive filesystem with file names written on different on different

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: FPC with case insensitive file system under Linux

2012-02-27 Thread Sven Barth
Am 27.02.2012 10:11, schrieb Virgo Pärna: On Sat, 25 Feb 2012 17:35:38 +0100, Jürgen Hestermannjuergen.hesterm...@gmx.de wrote: I wholeheartly agree with you on case sensitive file names. It's a crap. I never understood why they created such a nonsense. Case sensitive filesystem with

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: FPC with case insensitive file system under Linux

2012-02-27 Thread Jürgen Hestermann
Virgo Pärna schrieb: Essentialy, case insensitive filesystems are less problematic. No, just the opposite. The problems are only moved (and increased) from the techie level (where it should belong to) to the user. This is not a good idea IMO. If there problems with capitalization of

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: FPC with case insensitive file system under Linux

2012-02-27 Thread Alberto Narduzzi
If there problems with capitalization of certain characters exist then these problems should be solved or if that's not possible for some reason such characters should not be allowed in file systems. But giving it all over to the user and tell him We did not know how to handle this mess, just

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: FPC with case insensitive file system under Linux

2012-02-27 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Alberto Narduzzi wrote: If there problems with capitalization of certain characters exist then these problems should be solved or if that's not possible for some reason such characters should not be allowed in file systems. But giving it all over to the user and tell him We did not know how to

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: FPC with case insensitive file system under Linux

2012-02-27 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 27 February 2012 18:58, Jürgen Hestermann wrote:    Essentialy, case insensitive filesystems are less problematic. No, just the opposite. The  problems are only moved (and increased) from the techie level (where it should belong to) to the user. No, just the opposite. :-) See my

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: FPC with case insensitive file system under Linux

2012-02-27 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
2012/2/28 Flávio Etrusco flavio.etrusco@g: That's a fantastic tip. I'll have to try it :) Yeah, and I would never have found that issue, if I didn't move my data over to a case insensitive file system. Did you notice any speed gain in compilation time, by chance? ;) I didn't really pay