Windows support considered non-trivial [was Re: hgignore and extensions]

[Giuseppe Bilotta]

On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 22:05:20 -0700, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:

> By the way, something else the Windows users haven't brought up is case
> normalisation.  Windows doesn't care about case, but Unix does.  There's
> a very inconsistent job done of handling this properly, and the case of
> two files or directories that have different Unix names but the same
> Windows name (due to case) is not handled at all.

Any project in which there are files that differ by case only cannot
be ported (as source) to Windows, so that's a non-issue.

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Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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