On Wed, 2008-02-27 at 07:59 +1100, Robert Collins wrote: > On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 20:11 +0100, Guido Serassio wrote: > > Hi Alex, > > > > At 19:29 22/02/2008, Alex Rousskov wrote: > > >On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 19:23 +0100, Guido Serassio wrote: > > > > > > > Changing the case of files/dir will not be a problem if we will avoid > > > > upper/lower case collisions. > > > > > >This only applies to files in the same directory, right? > > > > Sure. > > > > > AFAICT, > > >filenames from different directories may still collide and even have > > >identical case. > > > > Yes, absolutely no problems here. > > Actually there is a problem. > > touch include1/Foo.h > touch include2/foo.h > > g++ -I include1 -I include2 foo.cc > > foo.cc: > #include "foo.h"
That #include line would be illegal in cleaned up sources, of course. You are supposed to say "include1/Foo.h" or equivalent. That's why duplicating group in file names may become unnecessary: Group/GroupFoo.h becomes Group/Foo.h Alex.
