Pierre Joye wrote:
- Case sensitivity
. Even with ini setting, which will be most likely system wild, will
bring a major breakage for almost every single app out there. I do not
see any gain to do it.
On the contrary, I'd argue a lot of applications use lowercase names anyhow.
And as I've mentioned before, it'd be trivial to write a tool to
automatically correct existing source.
Anyone not being a developer will never use it. Let alone conservative
projects, or already released applications. There is no gain. However
there are tools already to apply whatever CS one wishes to existing
source code, or to check CS on commit. That's what one can uses case
sensitive naming without us having to break everything out there. I
think we can disagree on that and do not discuss that forever, if
there is a RFC about it, we will vote on it and that's it:) My
mistake was to send this mail too early, more important points coming
:)
For people who only work on Windows systems then the problem does not exist as such, but continually fighting legacy projects that originated in that environment, trying to clear up lax case usage, pinning this down makes sense to me. Add to this the problem that allowing proper Unicode support across the board, then simply allowing limited case 'insensitivity' going forward does not make sense either. Comments have been made about not allowing foo/Foo at the same time, and yes this can be a problem when involving Windows file names but I think that is a different problem anyway. I am open to some mechanism to help flag that problem, but I don't see the general simplification would cause any problem if a project has used the same case everywhere.
I've just been reworking a project that works fine on windows, but fell flat on Linux because a number of directory names used were different cases to the classes in them ...
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