On Nov 22, 2010, at 12:58 08PM, Stéphane Ducasse wrote:
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...
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).
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.
So if you are ready to not interact with other people change else keep it the way it is.
I got problem because damien in the past changed it and interacted with me.
Ok, thanks for the advice. But still, the problem with Pharo is present.
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.
As a (fragile) hack, you could use isAFileNamed: with a known existing filename on the platform containing uppercase characters i.e. the platform function called in FilePlugin>primitiveFileOpen (at least on Mac) respects the case-sensitivity setting. Problem is when new version come out where the file is moved/removed, you're in trouble :) Cheers, Henry