[gobolinux-devel] [gobolinux-commits] r3332 - trunk/ChrootCompile/bin

[Ben Eisenbraun]

On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 05:35:59PM -0300, hisham.hm at gmail.com wrote:
> On 5/20/08, Lucas C. Villa Real <lucasvr at gobolinux.org> wrote:
> 
> > I wonder what happens when one runs
> > GuessProgramCase in a case-insensitive filesystem, too.
> 
> We probably don't need to worry about that; I think we never claimed
> to support  case-insensitive filesystems (there are things in Linux
> that are known to break if you use those to store your system in,
> IIRC; that's why things like umsdos were created back then).

OS X uses a case-insensitive file system by default.

I may have missed the we're-never-going-to-support-OS-X conversation, in 
which case I apologize, but I thought I'd mention this, since I run into
issues where applications written on linux and ported to OS X break
because they assume case-sensitivity for the file system.

-ben

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