From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Robert Dewar <dewar@adacore.com>
Cc: mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl, vinschen@redhat.com, dj@redhat.com,
pinskia@gmail.com, brobecker@adacore.com,
gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [RFA/libiberty] Darwin has case-insensitive filesystems
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 17:47:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <834o3r9f7f.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4DF8907F.5080807@adacore.com>
> Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 06:59:11 -0400
> From: Robert Dewar <dewar@adacore.com>
> CC: vinschen@redhat.com, dj@redhat.com, pinskia@gmail.com, brobecker@adacore.com, gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
>
> > or some piece of code in the toolchain arbitrarily changed the
> > case of a filename. I don't mind punishing people for that. They
> > have to learn that on a proper operating system file names are
> > case-sensitive!
>
> This kind of unix arrogance leads to junk unusable software on
> windows. It's really important not to visit your unix predjudices
> on windows users. After all we feel the same way in return, I
> find Unix systems complete junk for many reasons, one of which
> is the very annoying case sensitive viewpoint, but I do not
> translate my feelings into silly suggestions for making
> software malfunction on Unix. You should not make this mistake
> in a reverse direction.
I cannot agree more.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-15 17:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-14 21:57 Joel Brobecker
2011-06-14 22:02 ` DJ Delorie
2011-07-01 17:58 ` Joel Brobecker
2011-06-14 22:06 ` Andrew Pinski
2011-06-14 22:13 ` DJ Delorie
2011-06-15 4:25 ` Tristan Gingold
2011-06-15 8:14 ` Joel Brobecker
2011-06-15 9:30 ` Corinna Vinschen
2011-06-15 10:44 ` Mark Kettenis
2011-06-15 10:55 ` Corinna Vinschen
2011-06-15 11:00 ` Pedro Alves
2011-06-15 11:26 ` Robert Dewar
2011-06-15 17:47 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2011-06-15 10:59 ` Joseph S. Myers
2011-06-15 11:07 ` Corinna Vinschen
2011-06-15 17:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-06-15 21:11 ` Corinna Vinschen
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