[fpc-pascal] FPC with case insensitive file system under Linux

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

Hi,

[rant]
I'm just sick of the idiocy of Linux/Unix with there case sensitive
file systems! Google'ing a round for the reason for this, it seems
that in the 60's, it was C programmers that decided that searching for
case sensitive files was easier to implement (and marginally faster).
Well, 40+ years later, that is totally irrelevant - yet we are still
suck (by default) with case sensitive file systems. Mac OS X, Windows
and OS/2 proves that there is no problems with case insensitive file
systems, even for various locales. It also makes it MUCH easier for
the end-user. I see no reason why Linux must still be stuck with this.
Anyway, that is why I am busy reformatting all my JFS file systems (I
have long ago standardised on JFS) with the -O option to make them
case insensitive.
[/rant]


Anyway, back to the point.... I seriously doubt there would be any
problems, but I'll ask anyway. Has anybody here used JFS (case
insensitive option enabled) with FPC and experienced any problems? I
doubt there would be, because Mac OS X by default is case insensitive
too - and it is also a *nix system.

In the same breath, any possible Lazarus issues?


PS:
Anybody know of other Linux file systems that have a case insensitive
option? I really thought ext2 had this, but searching now through the
man pages, it seems I was mistaken. Anybody know if Btrfs would have
such an option?

-- 
Regards,
  - Graeme -


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