RE: [cp-patches] RFC: Remove lowercasing of Windows paths

[Jeroen Frijters]

Roman Kennke wrote:
> Ingo found a bug in the Windows path handling. In the PlatformHelper
> class we lowercase all Windows paths. This is kind of naive and
> shortsighted, because paths are not only file system paths, 
> but can also be paths inside JAR files etc, which actually ARE
> case-sensitive.

When I last looked at PlatformHelper, it was very broken (on Windows)
and I recommend not using it at all. IMHO it should be removed from cvs
and VMFile should be rewritten to delegate these operations to native
code.

IKVM replaces VMFile, so for me it's not really important, but it would
be good for other VMs to have better Windows support.

Regards,
Jeroen