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Re: case-insensitive matching of portnames

On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 10:12:47AM -0800, Landon Fuller wrote: > Because the dportsearch procedure takes a regex, and is used in a > number of locations to find a specific port (not just for searching for > a port), it can't be made case insensitive. in which exact cases does it break? I looked in various places and tested a bit around, but could not find anything. -fkr -- gpg-fingerprint: 076E 1E87 3E05 1C7F B1A0 8A48 0D31 9BD3 D9AC 74D0 Felix Kronlage | FKR-RIPE | http://www.hazardous.org/fkr/ fkr@{grummel.net|opendarwin.org} | http://www.opendarwin.org/~fkr/ pgpo1ObmgLUJp.pgp Description: PGP signature _______________________________________________ Darwinports mailing list Darwinports@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.opendarwin.org/mailman/listinfo/darwinports

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Re: case-insensitive matching of portnames

On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 10:28:43AM -0800, Landon Fuller wrote: > In the unlikely, but not impossible, (okay, pretty damn unlikely) case > where you have two ports with the same name, different cases. recalling a "discussion" on darwinports@ from a few weeks ago (talking about the myODBC and MyODBC mess), we concluded that it makes no sense at all having two ports share the same name, with different cases, since that is just calling for trouble on case-insensitive filesystems (as hfs+ can be under certain circumstances). -fkr -- gpg-fingerprint: 076E 1E87 3E05 1C7F B1A0 8A48 0D31 9BD3 D9AC 74D0 Felix Kronlage | FKR-RIPE | http://www.hazardous.org/fkr/ fkr@{grummel.net|opendarwin.org} | http://www.opendarwin.org/~fkr/ pgpOgRH8iHuje.pgp Description: PGP signature _______________________________________________ Darwinports mailing list Darwinports@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.opendarwin.org/mailman/listinfo/darwinports

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On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 10:12:47AM -0800, Landon Fuller wrote: > Because the dportsearch procedure takes a regex, and is used in a > number of locations to find a specific port (not just for searching for > a port), it can't be made case insensitive. in which exact cases does it break? I looked in various places and tested a bit around, but could not find anything. -fkr -- gpg-fingerprint: 076E 1E87 3E05 1C7F B1A0 8A48 0D31 9BD3 D9AC 74D0 Felix Kronlage | FKR-RIPE | http://www.hazardous.org/fkr/ fkr@{grummel.net|opendarwin.org} | http://www.opendarwin.org/~fkr/ pgpo1ObmgLUJp.pgp Description: PGP signature _______________________________________________ Darwinports mailing list Darwinports@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.opendarwin.org/mailman/listinfo/darwinports

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Re: case-insensitive matching of portnames

On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 10:28:43AM -0800, Landon Fuller wrote: > In the unlikely, but not impossible, (okay, pretty damn unlikely) case > where you have two ports with the same name, different cases. recalling a "discussion" on darwinports@ from a few weeks ago (talking about the myODBC and MyODBC mess), we concluded that it makes no sense at all having two ports share the same name, with different cases, since that is just calling for trouble on case-insensitive filesystems (as hfs+ can be under certain circumstances). -fkr -- gpg-fingerprint: 076E 1E87 3E05 1C7F B1A0 8A48 0D31 9BD3 D9AC 74D0 Felix Kronlage | FKR-RIPE | http://www.hazardous.org/fkr/ fkr@{grummel.net|opendarwin.org} | http://www.opendarwin.org/~fkr/ pgpOgRH8iHuje.pgp Description: PGP signature _______________________________________________ Darwinports mailing list Darwinports@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.opendarwin.org/mailman/listinfo/darwinports