Hi users and devs, I would like to have your opinion on the topic of case sensitive vs case insensitive and which one you prefer in XWiki.
Currently, XWiki is case sensitive. This means the same resource name (document name, space name, etc) can be written with either small letters or big letters or a mix. Examples: You can have both "Main.Test" and "Main.test" as 2 different documents. Also, you can have "XWiki.Admin" and "XWiki.admin" as 2 different users. This also applies to URLs, as "/Main/Test" is different from "/Main/test" or "/main/test", so all these 3 are different resources. Even from this short description, one can already identify possible problems of this approach. >From the top 3 operating systems (Linux, Mac an Windows), only Linux is case sensitive, the other two (more user-focused Operating Systems) are both case insensitive. Since XWiki has one of its main targets the Enterprise users, it is safe to assume that the correct approach would be to also be more user-focused and simplify things and avoid confusions by being case insensitive as well. Also, a quick search on existing issues validates the need for this improvement: http://jira.xwiki.org/issues/?jql=text%20~%20%22case%20insensitive%22 What do you think? Is it OK to keep XWiki case sensitive, or would you prefer it case insensitive? Bring arguments. I have also created a jira issue for this idea: http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-11412 to track it in the future. Thanks, Eduard _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
