Re: NT porting gotcha

Brian wrote:
>
> If the brain damage necessary to support Win32 clients does not
> negatively impact usage in a mixed case environment on Unix (consider
> the case where both FOO and Foo exist in a directory) or overly
> complicate the source code, if it can be contained to the Win32 client
> code, then that's probably fine.

Another platform worth considering is MacOSX, which has the unusual
property of being both "unix" and, at the same time, having a
filesystem that preserves case -- but is case insensitive.
Received on Sat Oct 21 14:36:06 2006