As far as I know, Mac can be either case sensitive or case insensitive (just need to choose how you format your disk)*.
So we could do the same on XWiki and propose to choose between case sensitive and case insensitive at the installation (a variable in xwiki.properties)? I'm not against a case insentivity by default if I can switch it later. * I have a Mac at home and mine is case sensitive but I configured it 2 years ago. I don't know if, in the last 2 years, Apple decided to remove this choice between case sentivity and case insensitivity. On Fri, Nov 07, 2014 at 12:03:14PM +0100, Guillaume Lerouge wrote: > Hi Edy, > > thanks for your message. From a forward-looking standpoint, I 100% agree > with you that switching XWiki to case-insensitive would be a good thing to > do. I've seen others (as well as myself) be lost because they were going to > .../xwiki/bin/view/Main/Xyy instead of .../xwiki/bin/view/Main/XYY and > vice-versa. If we were to make the decision today, I can't see a good > reason why not to go case-insensitive, especially when targeting business > users. > > However we're not starting from a blank slate. There might be (I don't know > that there is, but there might be) legitimate use cases for a page named > "Xyy" vs a page named "XYY", both in the same wiki. I'd like to have a > better idea of the consequences of this change, as well an analysis of a > public site such as xwiki.org to see whether this could be causing > unforeseen and other unexpected issues. In other words: what could go wrong? > > Thanks, > > Guillaume > ᐧ > > On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 11:33 AM, Eduard Moraru <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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 > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users -- Jean Simard [email protected] Research engineer at XWiki SAS http://www.xwiki.com Committer on the XWiki.org project http://www.xwiki.org _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
