On Wednesday, April 18, 2001, at 03:01 PM, Paul Henry Smith wrote:
> It's also interesting to note that they (Apple) considered the case
> sensitivity issue a trivial matter that did not warrant a fix.
I don't believe I said that in my paper, nor do I believe it was true.
The argument for case-insensitivity is just as valid as the argument
against. The fact is you can't change a volume format willy-nilly. If
it's not case-folding, it's not HFS+, and at that point you've put a lot
more work on the table. Much more software would have broken if we had
changed the filesystem than when we did not. The matter was far from
trivial.
What I did say was that I had expected a lot more Unix stuff to have
problems, but in fact, very little software does. Perl and Python both
have rather stupid build-time problems to to case variant names, and lwp
uses a rather questionable name for HEAD. That's hardly the end of the
world, people.
-Fred
