Guys and Ladies,
we can discuss whether it is good or bad, but it is allowed on most
platforms (even NTFS can be configured to be case sensitive). So this is a
fact of our life and we cannot change it. Just accept the life as it is.
- Alexey.
--
{ http://trelony.cjb.net/ } Alexey N. Solofnenko
{ http://www.inventigo.com/ } Inventigo LLC
Pleasant Hill, CA (GMT-8 usually)
-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Ellsworth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 11:20 AM
To: Ant Users List
Subject: Re: Cross-platform build.xml files
On Wednesday, May 22, 2002, at 10:44 AM, Diane Holt wrote:
> --- Gordon Tyler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> But why would you want to? I'm not saying use only uppercase or use
>> only lowercase letters, but if you want to distinguish files, why
>> distinguish them *only* by case? It doesn't impart any useful
>> information.
>
> This is getting a bit off-topic, but...
True, but I cannot resist a fun debate not really subject to facts.
> I'm just saying I shouldn't be prevented from using that as the
> distinction when I want to. If I want to have a Makefile and a makefile
> in the same directory (and I have), there's no reason why I shouldn't
> be able to do that.
Yes and no - English has fairly strict capitalization rules, such that
there are very few times where the choice is optional. Programming
languages and operating systems are just as precise in many cases, but
without the obvious rules making it clear to everyone how things should
be expressed.
I am not at all convinced that having the ability to have makefile and
Makefile as distinct files in a directory buys us more in expressiveness
than it costs in simple errors and mistaken gestures. Obviously, it is
more expressive, but I do see a lot of "more thingie" "file not found"
"more Thingie" errors, so it does cost.
Clearly a difference of opinion not subject to rational debate without
some serious user testing, and I doubt we will find a lot of people
working on that issue.
The feature I want more than that, though, is real version numbers and
versioning built in to the OS at the filesystem level. VMS had such,
but no Unix variant I have worked with has managed it, primarily because
the tools go a bit ape under those circumstances.
Scott
--
To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
--
To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
