Re: [Firebird-devel] Config case-sensitivity for FB3

[Lester C. <le...@ls...>]

Adriano dos Santos Fernandes wrote:
> In FB, case-sensitivity of attributes in the config file uses filename 
> comparision function.
> 
> That means, in Windows, they're case-insensitive and case-sensitive in 
> others OS.
> 
> In Vulcan, it's always case-insensitive.
> 
> We know Vulcan config is not XML, but it looks like, and maybe in the 
> future we use real XML, so I think none of above is good.
> 
> I suggest we make the config case-sensitive (as XML is) in FB3, and of 
> course, database lookups will use filename comparision function.

Only thing to watch out for here is that WINDOWS does not mess things up. I 
get somewhat agitated by the way microsoft will 'reformat' the case of file 
names depending on nothing in particular. I have two microsoft windows up at 
the moment, one with all lower case ( what I THINK the file system is using ) 
and one with all the first letters upper case. I've also seen BOTH when 
accessing the file name from Builder and PHP. Just a hand up that there may be 
problems with case-sensitive IN windows - and yes I do still have customers 
with W98SE using Firebird - some of the differences are between different 
versions/builds of windows :(

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