From: Earnie B. <ea...@us...> - 2007-09-29 12:45:56
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Quoting Keith Marshall <kei...@us...>: --8<-- > > And, since this started out as a discussion on case sensitivity in > make... > --8<-- > You must adapt your expectations and practise, to conform with fact; > argument is futile. > Fact: I want tools that pay attention to the case of its arguments and commands even in a case insensitive file system. Argument to this fact is futile. Fact: You want tools that do not pay attention to the case of its arguments and commands especially in a case insensitive file system. Argument to this fact is futile. Given these two facts we must agree to compromise. The best compromise I've seen offered in this thread was to include a runtime switch or environment setting to control its operation. I have strong opinions that tools that allow the user to misuse the case insensitive file system fact are broken. Therefore the tools so far have considered foo != FOO even though the file system thinks so. I can agree to the above compromise however because I can still therefore enforce my opinion while at the same time you can enforce your opinion. Earnie |