From: Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 15:03:24 GMT
Subject: Re: Re-casing directories on case-insensitive systems
Message-ID: <20080112150324.GF2963@dpotapov.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <08E42D03-7AAA-4ADD-9F5B-215AB30E34E1@sb.org>

On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 08:43:35PM -0500, Kevin Ballard wrote:
> 
> Fair enough, though I believe OS X has a good reason, namely it's an  
> OS designed for regular users rather than servers or programmers. Case- 
> sensitivity would confuse my mother.

Many of *nix servers are running web-services and samba servers, yet most
users are even not aware of whether they dealing with case-sensitive file
system or not, let alone being confused by that. This is because most
regular users will type the name only once when they create a new file
and then just click on this name. So case-sensitive file systems can
really confuse only some badly written applications...

Dmitry