gdc-0.19 violates D spec bahavior on module name case sensitivity
Lars Ivar Igesund
larsivar at igesund.net
Tue Oct 17 07:55:10 PDT 2006
Wolfgang Draxinger wrote:
> Lars Ivar Igesund wrote:
>
>> Yes, the doc there is a convention, not spec. It just suggest
>> that you should use lower case names, since that might reduce
>> problems when moving files between systems.
>
> Then you got another problem, e.g. if somebody works on a Windows
> box and has mounted his stuff from a Linux/Samba Server.
> Depending on the configuration of Samba the files might end up
> all uppercase, in which case a compiler farm running under Linux
> are unable to locate the files, since Samba made them uppercase.
> I think that D, aiming to cancel out ambiguouties, should make
> it a definitive specification, that all files and module names
> are treated case insensitive.
>
> Wolfgang Draxinger
If that happens, you have a problem with Samba, not D.
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