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

[Giuseppe Bilotta]

On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 08:38:18 -0700, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:

> On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 16:37 +0200, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> No, it is not.
> 
> There's no checking done for this in the code, so what will happen is
> silent working dir corruption that will lead to repository corruption if
> someone on a Windows box does a commit.

Sorry, what I meant to say is that hg shouldn't care about handling
such an issue, because such a project cannot be *used* in Windows. So
at most erroring out when one such thing happens in Windows would be
enough, but won't it automatically happen already? (Inconsistent
repo.)

Or are you thinking about catering for those who might want to host
projects on Windows, although the projects itself might be developed
on other platforms?

-- 
Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

"I'm never quite so stupid
 as when I'm being smart" --Linus van Pelt