[Python-Dev] Buildbots have trouble checking out the repository due to recent changes. (original) (raw)

Paul Moore p.f.moore at gmail.com
Mon May 12 16:30:04 CEST 2008

2008/5/12 "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de>:

> 1.0. There are still case folding bugs in 1.0 - I'm working on fixing > them. But there will never be a complete fix for this situation, as > it's simply not possible to checkout the exact svn layout of that > revision on a case-folding system, it simply can't be supported > (without name mangling of files in the working directory).

Assuming this is NTFS, notice that it is not the file system that is case-folding, but the API. If you pass FILEFLAGSPOSIXSEMANTICS to the API, you can get case-sensitive behavior (to some degree, as there are bugs in that API, as well).

Hmm, that's interesting information. I suspect I could easily create more bugs than I solve by using it, but it's interesting to know nevertheless.

Thanks, Paul.

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