Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: tla1.2 on cygwin

[Dustin Sallings]

On Mar 10, 2004, at 1:15, Tom Lord wrote:

> > From: David Brown <address@hidden>
>
> > Personally, I think a case-insensitive filesystem is stupid
> > (think Unicode).  But, the two largest OS vendors ship with
> > them, and I think we're stuck with them for a while.
>
>
> The pragmatic way to deal with that is by getting people to agree to
> not create category and branch names that differ only in case --- not
> by crippling tools.

	``crippling'' is a strong word to use in a weak argument.  The only 
justification I've seen for the current design is that it makes it 
slightly easier to see things that were related to the same version.  
If it does, it's still broken when people use different cases in 
category or branch names anyway.

        My suggestions were as follows:

	1) Change the layout of the {arch} tree so it's rooted at the 
globally-unique archive which both avoids this type of conflict as well 
as seems to be more consistent with other areas of arch.  It does break 
backwards compatibility, though.

	2) Force category and branch names into a naming convention which will 
keep them consistent without breaking backwards compatibility.

> The strategic way is to keep working on shifting the balance of power
> so that people with your complaint will take it to their FS vendors
> rather than to me.

	Um, so we should all complain to Apple and Microsoft that their 
products are incompatible with arch?  I really like this product, but I 
don't have time to explain what it is in the first place to companies 
too large to care in the hopes that they'll think it's important to 
change fundamental properties of their operating systems.

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