Hi Edy, thanks for your message. From a forward-looking standpoint, I 100% agree with you that switching XWiki to case-insensitive would be a good thing to do. I've seen others (as well as myself) be lost because they were going to .../xwiki/bin/view/Main/Xyy instead of .../xwiki/bin/view/Main/XYY and vice-versa. If we were to make the decision today, I can't see a good reason why not to go case-insensitive, especially when targeting business users.
However we're not starting from a blank slate. There might be (I don't know that there is, but there might be) legitimate use cases for a page named "Xyy" vs a page named "XYY", both in the same wiki. I'd like to have a better idea of the consequences of this change, as well an analysis of a public site such as xwiki.org to see whether this could be causing unforeseen and other unexpected issues. In other words: what could go wrong? Thanks, Guillaume ᐧ On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 11:33 AM, Eduard Moraru <enygma2...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi users and devs, > > I would like to have your opinion on the topic of case sensitive vs case > insensitive and which one you prefer in XWiki. > > Currently, XWiki is case sensitive. This means the same resource name > (document name, space name, etc) can be written with either small letters > or big letters or a mix. > > Examples: You can have both "Main.Test" and "Main.test" as 2 different > documents. Also, you can have "XWiki.Admin" and "XWiki.admin" as 2 > different users. This also applies to URLs, as "/Main/Test" is different > from "/Main/test" or "/main/test", so all these 3 are different resources. > > Even from this short description, one can already identify possible > problems of this approach. > > From the top 3 operating systems (Linux, Mac an Windows), only Linux is > case sensitive, the other two (more user-focused Operating Systems) are > both case insensitive. > > Since XWiki has one of its main targets the Enterprise users, it is safe to > assume that the correct approach would be to also be more user-focused and > simplify things and avoid confusions by being case insensitive as well. > > Also, a quick search on existing issues validates the need for this > improvement: > http://jira.xwiki.org/issues/?jql=text%20~%20%22case%20insensitive%22 > > What do you think? Is it OK to keep XWiki case sensitive, or would you > prefer it case insensitive? Bring arguments. > > I have also created a jira issue for this idea: > http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-11412 to track it in the future. > > Thanks, > Eduard > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > d...@xwiki.org > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs _______________________________________________ users mailing list users@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
