Re: Changing the case of a filename?
Re: Changing the case of a filename?
- Subject: Re: Changing the case of a filename?
- From: "l.m.orchard" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 08:17:36 -0400
On Thursday, August 16, 2001, at 05:39 AM, Angela Brett <email@hidden>
wrote:
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> Let me also say, that a case-insensitive file system is a brain-dead
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> idea, and that whoever was responsible for it back in the mid-80's
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> should be tortured with a resource fork applied repeatedly to a
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> sensitive part of his anatomy.
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>
Okay, this is kind of getting off the topic of Cocoa development...
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but I think that a case-insensitive file system is a great idea. The
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average not-technically-minded person (who is surely the kind of
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person the Macintosh is designed for) doesn't want to be trying to
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remember whether they had a capital letter in their file name, or
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which of several otherwise identical filenames in a folder is the one
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he/she wants to open. Perhaps a case-sensitive file system is helpful
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when using a case-sensitive development environment, but not in any
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other situation that I can think of.
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The big problems I've had so far, though, is that the UNIX tradition so
far has mostly revolved around a case-sensitive filesystem. So, many of
the tools out there do assume a "case-sensitive development environment".
Working with Perl has already replaced my /usr/bin/head with /usr/bin/HEAD,
and another project in Java which manipulated CVS projects was unable to
be checked out because CVS uses the directory 'CVS' while the Java project
had a path that contained 'cvs'.
These aren't really proofs of why a case-sensitive FS is a great idea, but
it's not great to switch an unsuspecting UNIX system to one :)
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