On 7/18/07, Erik Huelsmann <ehuels@gmail.com> wrote:
> Proposed resolution
> Considering the above, combined with the number of reports we have
> received so far regarding creation of 2 files with the same name (on
> Linux/Windows) - namely none - probably the best option is to use
> option (1).
> At least, that's what I was going to propose until I realized there
> were mixed client version concerns. Now, I think the only option is to
> go with (2).
You lost me here. Great summary by the way. Anyway, I am not
disagreeing with your conclusion, I just do not understand what made
you decide 2 is the only option. You referenced mixed client
concerns, but I did not understand that part either.
FWIW, I think a solution that is not perfect but gives people
reasonable options could be acceptable here. #1 seems like it fits
that description. Today, OSX users are pretty much just screwed.
Their only option is to not use these characters.
Anyway, perhaps another way to make this proposal is to create two of them:
1) Better than what we have today proposal. We'd want to describe
the things it could not handle as best as we can so that we can agree
this is still reasonable and worth doing.
2) The as close to perfect as we can get proposal. This one needs to
include the effort/time involved and whatever hurt might be involved
in terms of trying to repair existing data if needed, or problems it
would still have.
If we go the route of using ICU and trying to really resolve the
problem, we should also talk about whether this has to be a required
or optional dependency.
> Unicode has 2 different representations, a 'defect' from which we
> suffer when comparing pathnames. We need to decide what to do about
> this issue in order to create a workable situation on the Mac and to
> prevent people from committing the same file with the same name twice
> to the repository.
One other issue is that the Mac, which is all we are really trying to
fix here, does not actually use either of these 2 representations. It
uses a third bastardized version. I get the impression it is
compatible with NFD for the most common use cases, but it is not
completely the same. If we go with something like ICU, presumably we
would want to know that it is aware of these Mac peculiarities and
does not just simply implement the official standard.
--
Thanks
Mark Phippard
http://markphip.blogspot.com/
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Received on Wed Jul 18 17:01:42 2007