[Imap-uw] Leopard

[Mark Crispin]

On Wed, 31 Oct 2007, Rob Banz wrote:

> The only problem I ever had building pine/uw-imap on OSX was... *drum roll*

> ...the relic of the stone age.  The case-insensitive filesystem.


Really?  How?

I build Alpine on a case-insensitive Mac filesystem all the time, and have 
never had any problems.  I also regularly build Alpine on a 
case-insensitive Windows filesystem.

FWIW, I personally feel that a case-insensitive filesystem is preferable 
to case-sensitive; but also that it is 37 years too late to change UNIX's 
case-sensitive filesystem ways.  I have not encountered very many tarballs 
which contain file names that differ only by case, but I have encountered 
a few (Alpine is not one of these).

So I have a secondary filesystem on my Mac that is case-sensitive.  I'm 
nervous about changing the case-insensitivity on the primary filesystem 
for fear that it'll break some obscure Apple thing that depends upon 
case-insensitivity.

-- Mark --

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