Re: Naming convention request--Please allow for case insensitive file system

From: Stephen Sanders (ssanders@ku.edu)
Date: Tue Aug 27 2002 - 09:34:51 EDT

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    Mac OSX is UNIX but, alas, Steve Jobs figured case sensitivity would 
    confuse
    the masses...
    
    ...steve
    On Monday, August 26, 2002, at 06:26 PM, Flemming Videbaek wrote:
    
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    >
    >
    >> Hi,
    >> I'm working on getting brat running under Mac OSX.  So far I have ROOT
    >> running fine
    >> and brat half-running; brat compiles fine, but seems to have trouble
    >> with accessing
    >> the compiled headers.
    >>
    >> In any case, I would like to request that the brat developers avoid
    >> introducing classes
    >> whose names are only distinguished by letter case.
    >
    >  Mac OSX does not
    >> have a
    >> case sensitive file system.
    >
    > I am sure this is right but I though this was a unix system - O well. 
    > The
    > files and classes is question BrFSTra.. is a leftover from the
    > Sonata program that did all the design tracking etc. It is in principle 
    > good
    > algortihm for doing the tracking but has de facto been
    > overridden by the BrFs.. etc. It would in fact not even work. My 
    > suggestion
    > would be if Kris concure to delect this class from the
    > directory- this should help the Mac setup and do not caise any other
    > problem.
    >
    > Flemming
    >
    >
    



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