Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Spaces in filenames

[Dustin Sallings]

On Jan 14, 2004, at 22:36, Colin Walters wrote:

> I'd really like to see it if only because I think it's really the last
> major remaining architectural flaw in arch.  All the other bugs are
> mainly user interface and performance related.

	I'm still interested in seeing comments in response to my email a  
couple of days ago about what seem to be unnecessary collisions on  
filesystems that are not case sensitive.

	In particular, allowing mixed case categories while preserving their  
path name as the root of all patches under {arch} seems to cause some  
major problems when two archives that are under control of two  
different people end up with similar names that aren't cased exactly  
the same.

        More specifically, why is it

{arch}/cat/cat--branch/cat--branch--version/archive/patch-log/
instead of
{arch}/archive/cat/cat--branch/cat--branch--version/patch-log/
or at least
{arch}/lc(cat)/lc(cat--branch)/lc(cat--branch--version)/archive/patch- 
log/
?

	This seems like an architectural flaw to me as it causes archives to  
stop working in general when you start developing with someone/on  
something with a case preserving but non case sensitive filesystem.   
This particular problem has left me with an archive that I can't use on  
any system that has case sensitive filenames.  It's also not going to  
be possible to even branch head-of-line viewarch if I ever intend to  
commit on my preferred development platform and deploy on my preferred  
server platform(s).

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