True case-sensitive filenames

[Earnie Boyd]

Gerald S. Williams wrote:
> Christopher Faylor wrote:
> 
>>It just seemed like it was really prone to causing massive user
>>confusion for, IMO, little gain.
> 
> 
> I understand you're walking a fine line between offering
> true POSIX compatibility for Unix-types and getting beat
> up with questions from people on the Windows side of the
> house.
> 
> For me the gain is being able to port a project that uses
> case to distinguish C implementations from C++ wrappers,
> implementation from examples, etc. Currently, you can't
> even untar such a project very easily. I'd really like to
> be able to apply a simple patch file if needed (or better
> yet, get any Cygwin changes merged into the project). But
> this isn't practical if the project contains files that
> are unrecognizable/unavailable to Cygwin.
> 

IMNSHO, the problem is with the project that uses files that differ only 
in case.  It's not portable, and if the project wishes portability, then 
the practice must stop.  I urge you to raise an argument with the 
package maintainers accompanied with a patch.  Changing Cygwin to handle 
the problem isn't going to cause these problems to disappear as not all 
environments will support it.

Earnie.