[Cvsnt] Cvsnt case sensitive?

Thomas Singer singer at dcs-systeme.de
Thu Apr 25 11:03:45 BST 2002


|Until then, I recommend to the original poster that he makes sure that
|his code compiles before he checks it into his CVS repository.
|That will
|largely eliminate this problem (unless you change the case of your
|actual classes) and people seem to find many other benefits with this
|model as well.

This suggestion and the current behavior makes CVSNT not very eligible for
XP (eXtreme Programming) with Java.

Tom


|-----Original Message-----
|From: cvsnt-admin at cvsnt.org [mailto:cvsnt-admin at cvsnt.org]On Behalf Of
|Brian Smith
|Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 7:55 PM
|To: cvsnt at cvsnt.org
|Subject: Re: [Cvsnt] Cvsnt case sensitive?
|
|
|Tony Hoyle wrote:
|> Brian Smith wrote:
|>
|>> Well, there is the situation that I call my file
|"foo.java". It won't
|>> compile because the Java compiler enforces it to be called
|"Foo.java" if
|>> it contains a public class named "Foo". If I checked in the file as
|>> "foo.java" then everybody is screwed unless I can somehow
|change it to
|>> "Foo.java".
|>>
|>> This is the case with Windows clients as well.
|>>
|> If you look for a file 'Foo.java' on Windows you'll always see it
|> because windows
|> isn't case sensetive.  If the java compiler is enforcing case
|> sensitivity beyond that it's a bug in that compiler, because
|on Windows
|> it's not unusual to get dodgy case on files.
|
|The Java compiler's checks on file name case are designed to
|allow us to
|build platform-independent applications. For somebody new to Java, it
|surely seems strange that "foo.java" doesn't mean the same thing as
|"Foo.java" on Windows and Mac OS X, but the Javac compiler is just
|checking to make sure that your program will compile the same way on
|every platform that supports Java. For example, If my class is
|named Foo
|and its in "foo.java", then on Solaris it will not compile correctly.
|Javac on Windows goes through some extra effort to make sure you
|recorgnize this problem. So, not to be cliche`, but really it is a
|feature of javac and not a bug.
|
|Actually, I thought that you (Tony) were working on a new "cvs rename"
|or "cvs move" command? If so, it should be able to do this kind of
|case-changing, since Windows is case-preserving even though it isn't
|case-sensitive.
|
|Until then, I recommend to the original poster that he makes sure that
|his code compiles before he checks it into his CVS repository.
|That will
|largely eliminate this problem (unless you change the case of your
|actual classes) and people seem to find many other benefits with this
|model as well.
|
|- Brian
|
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