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Honestly, now that Apple has proven you can run a POSIX OS on a case-insensitive filesystem, I'd think any "let's clean up the directory structure" project shou

by Pxtl 5y ago

Honestly, now that Apple has proven you can run a POSIX OS on a case-insensitive filesystem, I'd think any "let's clean up the directory structure" project should be leveraging that work and going full case-insensitive. Case sensitivity should be avoided for anything outside of passwords and base64 and the like

galaxyLogic 5y ago
So case-sensitive file-system was a historical mistake, and MS-DOS was ahead of its time.
- Pxtl 5y ago
  Imho, yes. Well, except for the 8.3 thing. And the total path length limit. And the primitive security model. And the limits on having files named com and the like. But they were right on case-insensitive.
  - egberts1 5y ago
    not to mention uppercase COM1 or was that CON:?