Re: [Issue 1495] - Case sensitivity problem using file: on Windows

Jack Repenning wrote:
> Mmmm. OK. So would you say that Subversion can assume that any Windows
> file system is case-insensitive? It seems to me that some bozo
> somewhere is going to turn on POSIX, no matter how broken it is, and
> then SVN will be the one who looks bad for making the assumption.

No, it won't affect SVN, because you explicitely need to link to the POSIX
compatibility libraries in order to use those features. Show of hands: who
wants to test Subversion with system libraries that haven't been tested since
they were developed 6+ years ago??? It is not a matter of flipping some switch;
the entire Subversion build process under NT/W2K would need to change.

Search the list archives for CygWin, since they have already covered the ground
whether the POSIX feature for NTFS is worth using. It's a dead end. M$loth
only implemented it so they could claim POSIX.1 compatibility; even they aren't
dumb enough to actually _use_ it!

John

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