In message: <86ab9q14dl....@ds4.des.no>
Dag-Erling_Smørgrav <d...@des.no> writes:
: Stanislav Sedov <s...@freebsd.org> writes:
: > Was this discussed somewhere? I don't understand why we should
: > restrict our filesystem naming because of limitation of auxilary
: > filesystems.
:
: Yes. We've already renamed files that had : in their names.
:
: This is not just for Windows's sake, BTW: Apple's HFS and MacOS Extended
: file systems are case retentive but not case sensitive.
:
: We should restrict filenames in the source tree (and in the installed
: system) to the POSIX portable filename character set ([A-Za-z0-9._-] in
: the C/POSIX locale) and avoid gratuitously long names.
Yea, this is settled ground.
With the move from cvs -> svn, it is now possible to checkout a tree
on the Mac again. Before, contrib/files had a file names 'cvs'...
Warner
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