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Re: Case-insensitive targets
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: Case-insensitive targets |
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Thu, 02 Aug 2018 19:10:32 +0300 |
> From: Paul Smith <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2018 11:57:53 -0400
>
> Then there's the question of case-preserving or not. To be case-
> preserving, make would have to be doing all string searches and
> comparisons using case-insensitive implementations which would be a lot
> of code churn. And we would have to care a lot more about
> internationalization since case comparison is highly locale-specific.
In addition to the above, there's one more reason not to use
case-preserving implementation: in the Windows world, you can never be
sure all the tools that create and process files preserve letter-case
in file names. So a random foobar program could produce FOO when you
want it to produce Foo, and then things start to break.
- Case-insensitive targets, Gisle Vanem, 2018/08/02
- Re: Case-insensitive targets, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/08/02
- Re: Case-insensitive targets, Gisle Vanem, 2018/08/02
- Re: Case-insensitive targets, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/08/02
- Re: Case-insensitive targets, Paul Smith, 2018/08/02
- Re: Case-insensitive targets,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: Case-insensitive targets, Gisle Vanem, 2018/08/02
- Re: Case-insensitive targets, Paul Smith, 2018/08/02
- Re: Case-insensitive targets, David Boyce, 2018/08/02
- Re: Case-insensitive targets, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/08/03