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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: tla1.2 on cygwin
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Dustin Sallings |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: tla1.2 on cygwin |
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Wed, 10 Mar 2004 01:09:41 -0800 |
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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- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: tla1.2 on cygwin, (continued)
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: tla1.2 on cygwin, Tom Lord, 2004/03/11
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: tla1.2 on cygwin, Dustin Sallings, 2004/03/11
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: tla1.2 on cygwin, Tom Lord, 2004/03/11
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: tla1.2 on cygwin, Miles Bader, 2004/03/12
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: tla1.2 on cygwin, Dustin Sallings, 2004/03/12
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: tla1.2 on cygwin, David Brown, 2004/03/13
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: tla1.2 on cygwin, Stefan Monnier, 2004/03/11
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: tla1.2 on cygwin, Miles Bader, 2004/03/12
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: tla1.2 on cygwin, David Brown, 2004/03/11
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: tla1.2 on cygwin, Tom Lord, 2004/03/11
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: tla1.2 on cygwin,
Dustin Sallings <=
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: tla1.2 on cygwin, Tom Lord, 2004/03/11
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: tla1.2 on cygwin, Dustin Sallings, 2004/03/11
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: tla1.2 on cygwin, Tom Lord, 2004/03/11
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: tla1.2 on cygwin, Charles Duffy, 2004/03/13
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: tla1.2 on cygwin, Dustin Sallings, 2004/03/12
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: tla1.2 on cygwin, Tom Lord, 2004/03/13
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: tla1.2 on cygwin, David Brown, 2004/03/11
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: tla1.2 on cygwin, Tom Lord, 2004/03/11
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- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: tla1.2 on cygwin, Tom Lord, 2004/03/11
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: tla1.2 on cygwin, Stefan Monnier, 2004/03/11