Let me tink about this. This has relevant content: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0235/
Users who have an opinion please share it now. This is important. On Jun 8, 7:45 pm, Pierre Thibault <pierre.thibau...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2011/6/7 Massimo Di Pierro <massimo.dipie...@gmail.com> > > > I am not much of a windows user. I would like to understand what can > > go wrong with the solution in trunk? > > -- > > Is the solution in the trunk the one proposed by Alessandro: > > os.environ['PYTHONCASEOK'] = '1' > > ? > > Well, this solution is using a global change to fix for what is just > probably just one bad line of code. This a good temporary solution but a bad > long term solution. > > This is solution have the following flaws: > > - This solution may impact a lot of code; > - Developers may experience unexpected behavior; > - It makes it difficult to integrate web2py code with other code; > > The last flaw is very nasty. One example is web2py needing a special Python > setting and another piece of code needing another setting. So each time > execution switches from one source to another, the settings has to be > restored properly. This may mean a big patch needs to be applied to make it > work. This is the risk I see in this solution. > > And this problem is more probably related to a case insensitive file system > than Windows itself. It may be only related to the file system type. > > This is why I suggested a ticket for a better fix later. > > A+ > > ------------- > Pierre > My blog and profile > (http://pierrethibault.posterous.com)<http://pierrethibault.posterous.com> > YouTube page > (http://www.youtube.com/user/tubetib)<http://www.youtube.com/user/tubetib> > Twitter (http://twitter.com/pierreth2) <http://twitter.com/pierreth2>
