[Python-Dev] Inconsistent case in directory names for installed Python on Windows (original) (raw)

Brian Curtin brian.curtin at gmail.com
Thu May 19 04:48:03 CEST 2011

On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 21:33, anatoly techtonik <techtonik at gmail.com>wrote:

On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Brian Curtin <brian.curtin at gmail.com> wrote: > > On May 18, 2011 7:03 AM, "anatoly techtonik" <techtonik at gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Greetings, >> >> While studying virtualenv code I've noticed that in Python directory >> tree include, libs and tcl are lowercased while other dirs are >> capitalized. It doesn't seem important (especially for developers >> here), but it still can leave an unpleasant image for people new to >> Python (and programming in general). > > In theory there are probably a lot of things that might seem unpleasant but > are actually non-issues. I don't believe there have been any complaints > about actual unpleasantries with directory case.

Among web folks there are no people who care less about typography than those who spend most of their time in text terminals. =) I think that probability of receiving such complaint is very low even if everybody notices that. "Why should I bother about consistency if Python developers are not giving damn about it?" >> >> ├[Python27] >> │ ├─DLLs >> │ ├─Doc >> │ ├─include >> │ ├─Lib >> │ ├─libs >> │ ├─Scripts >> │ ├─tcl >> │ └─Tools >> >> How about making a consistent lowercased or uppercased scheme? Windows >> filesystems are case-insensitive, so the change shouldn't affect >> anybody. > > Some Macs have case-sensitive file systems, and some people use > case-sensitive file systems on various flavors of UNIX. The change would > probably require a thorough look through the build chain. But we are speaking only about Windows.

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