[tex-live] Please don't assume case sensitive file system

Will Robertson wspr81 at gmail.com
Thu Oct 1 00:42:07 CEST 2009


On 01/10/2009, at 7:18 AM, Reinhard Kotucha wrote:

> The problem is the Windows file system.  If there are two files,
> "FOO.BAR" and "foo.bar", in the SVN repository, you can't check out on
> Windows anymore.


Mac OS X's file system behaves (by default) the same way.
Partially because that's the way it's always worked; at the user  
level, it's considered a feature.
I qlways used to like it, until I read this argument against:
   <http://drewthaler.blogspot.com/2007/12/case-against-insensitivity.html 
 >

Will



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