Re: NT porting gotcha

>Danger Will Robinson!
>
>I am very very leary of seeing any projects like this jump through hoops
>to deal with the case-insensitivity and other issues associated with the
>very very broken nature of Win32 filesystems. In the Apache project

Short Shameful Confession:

In our source code tree we have a directory named "helm/data" and
under there we have sub dirs for each tigris hosted service: qmail,
apache, ..., and cvs.

The problem is that on windows cvs == CVS. So, WinCVS is expecting
Root and Repository files under it.

Anyway, there is "working around windows" and there is simply not
setting ourselves up for failure. The convention of using "CVS" a s
special dir name fails a number of naming guidelines. E.g., it fails the
"telephone test". If subversion clients have any special dirs or
files, lets give them more "out of band" names.

jason!

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