On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 12:58 PM, St�phane Ducasse <stephane.ducasse@inria.fr> wrote:
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> > H Bill. The file system (as much as I can notice) seems to be Mac OS Extended (Journaled). I am a completly mac newbie...so...
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> > Eliot: WOW! I didn't know that you can choose....I am googling now how to change to case sensitive (I hope I don't need to reformat).
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> you have but don't do that you may get a lot of trouble.
> Imagine you send me two files which are case sensitive and my system may blow up or I lose something and I send it back to you
> fucked up.
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> So if you are ready to not interact with other people change else keep it the way it is.
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> I got problem because damien in the past changed it and interacted with me.
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> Ok, thanks for the advice. But still, the problem with Pharo is present.
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> My OS is case insensitive, but FileDirectory default is working like case sensittive.....


This means that the VM should give a way to know if the filesystem is key sensitive
without that we can only guess or we could have a test saving a file and checking.


I thought about that. I was thinking to implement�� MacFileDirectory >> isCaseSensitive
so that it keeps a class side variable with the boolean. The getter can be lazy, and in nil, you can write a dummy file, and check.
But even if you do this, we still have a problem, becuase right now FileDirectory default is answering the unix one....and unix is always case-sensitive, so we shouldn't change that.� So first we need to modify so that we can use the MacFileDirectory, and then how to modify it so that it can support both case sensitive, and insensitive.


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