[asdf-devel] One failure on ASDF 3.1.0.70 on Allegro/Windows

Faré fahree at gmail.com
Tue Feb 25 11:33:19 UTC 2014


> Should we be treating Windows filenames as case-insensitive?
>
> According to Stack Overflow, NTFS can be configured to be
> case-sensitive, but typically isn't.
>
> Maybe PATHNAME-EQUAL should case-flatten (string-equal) on Windows?
>
It's a tough call, since some filesystems (e.g. remote NFS) are
case-sensitive indeed.

Same thing on Mac, where the (still?) default HFS+ filesystem is
case-insensitive, but other filesystems may be case-sensitive.

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