On 06-02-2007 10:40:33 +0100, Johan Hattne wrote:
> >Thinking about a completely hypothetical
MinGW+prefix-portage, this
> >becomes even more apparent. (/me runs to hide,
suggesting this. )
>
> I think the issue has been touched on before (Haubi?).
Being able to
> deal with case insensitive file systems would open up a
big market for
> prefix-portage.
You make it sound like prefix is the one to decide. But
it's mainly not
up to prefix, as it's up to package maintainers. One
example of a big
problem was the W3C (yes, that standards commitee thing)
tool called 'W',
which clashes with 'w', which is available on almost any
system.
Prefix currently only has this specific problem of two
licences that are
the same name when you look at it case INsensitively. One
of the two
is currently just removed because we don't have the
respective package
in the tree yet.
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Re:
2007-02-06 07:13:10
On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 10:49 +0100, Fabian Groffen wrote:
> On 06-02-2007 10:40:33 +0100, Johan Hattne wrote:
> > >Thinking about a completely hypothetical
MinGW+prefix-portage, this
> > >becomes even more apparent. (/me runs to hide,
suggesting this. )
> >
> > I think the issue has been touched on before
(Haubi?). Being able to
> > deal with case insensitive file systems would open
up a big market for
> > prefix-portage.
>
> You make it sound like prefix is the one to decide.
But it's mainly not
> up to prefix, as it's up to package maintainers. One
example of a big
> problem was the W3C (yes, that standards commitee
thing) tool called 'W',
> which clashes with 'w', which is available on almost
any system.
> Prefix currently only has this specific problem of two
licences that are
> the same name when you look at it case INsensitively.
One of the two
> is currently just removed because we don't have the
respective package
> in the tree yet.
Exactly, this is up to package maintainers:
We currently have our "toolsbox" running on
i586-interix with
case-insensitive filesystem, multilib-like building native
win32
binaries using wgcc[1], and encountered only trivial
problems based on
case-sensitivity, to be fixed by package maintainers.
[1] http://s
ourceforge.net/projects/interix-wgcc
So - Johan - the "big market" is already open!
/haubi/
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)
>
> I think the issue has been touched on before (Haubi?).
Being able to
> deal with case insensitive file systems would open up a
big market for
> prefix-portage.
You make it sound like prefix is the one to decide. But
it's mainly not
up to prefix, as it's up to package maintainers. One
example of a big
problem was the W3C (yes, that standards commitee thing)
tool called 'W',
which clashes with 'w', which is available on almost any
system.
Prefix currently only has this specific problem of two
licences that are
the same name when you look at it case INsensitively. One
of the two
is currently just removed because we don't have the
respective package
in the tree yet.
--
Fabian Groffen
Gentoo on a different level
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