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The thing I cringe at is the notion that it is ever helpful to manage files with names that differ only in case. Who does this? Why?
by chrisweekly 7y ago
The thing I cringe at is the notion that it is ever helpful to manage files with names that differ only in case. Who does this? Why?
- imglorp 7y agoIt's not always intentional. Make itself, for example, allows Makefile and makefile. What if you've got both in a project you unpack on OSX. Uhoh. https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Makefile-Names.html https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Makefile-...
- chrisweekly 7y agoYeah, I know it's not always intentional, and I understand the need to be able to distinguish between such files. It's just annoying that there isn't a better solution than "all filesystems, forever, must support a problematic use case that serves no good purpose". To be clear, naive solutions would likely be a slippery slope w/ worse side effects. So, on a certain level I feel obliged to apologize for complaining given I can't think of what a solution I'd prefer might look like.