On 7 March 2014 11:41, Rui Paulo <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 6 Mar 2014, at 23:30, David Xu <[email protected]> wrote:
>> it seems filename ended with a dot is illegal on Windows, if someone
>> wants to check out freebsd source code on Windows, it will be a problem.
>
> Is this something we want to support?

Yes.

>   NetBSD made some invasive changes on their source tree to be able to 
> support case-insensitive filesystems (like renaming 'cvs' to 'xcvs' to avoid 
> clashing with the 'CVS' metadata directory), but they support building NetBSD 
> on many different platforms.

Has anyone enumerated the problematic files for FreeBSD ?

>  We don't support that yet, though.

However, being able to checkout out the source code is a prerequisite
to building out other platforms.

> The file in question can be easily renamed, I think.

-- 
Eitan Adler
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