[Gnu-arch-users] windows file systems -- it just gets worse and worse

[Tom Lord]

You know, when the goal of the maintainer of a proprietary OS seems to
be to make applications ported from unix into second class citizens,
perhaps the right response it _not_ to try to work around the stupid
limitations of the proprietary OS.

-t



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From: "Ronald Cannes" <address@hidden>
Subject: ".svn" directory name no good (in fact, it is worse than I thought)

>>Do you:
>>1) Know a work-around for ASP.NET projects?
>>
>svn export

How is that going to help me? I need the project files to be under version 
control, yet have the virtual directory point to it. Some guys at the 
AnkhSVN project suggested creating a couple of batch files that you run 
before and after starting VS.NET (to rename .svn into something else and 
then back again.)

But that is really stupid, yet nothing else works properly. I assure you, 
".svn" is going to bite a lot of Windows users.

>>2) Plan to change the directory name to something Windows can handle 
>>properly in general?
>>
>Windows can handle it, the individual applications are the problem.

Applications that *ship* with Windows cannot handle it! Try creating a 
".svn" directory using the File Explorer. It won't work.

Also, some of the Win32 SDK functions cannot handle it, at least not the 
.NET version of those functions.

I see no reason why this shouldn't be changed this into something that works 
properly ASAP (given that this name is fairly localized in the code base)

"wc.svn" for instance? For migration purposes, both .svn and wc.svn could be 
supported for a while.

Please, fix this before it's to late. PRI 1 in my head.

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