Possible Patch: Allow Renaming to Different Case

[Martin Pool]

On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 09:30 +0200, Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> Michael Cook wrote:
> 
> > My only two thoughts are to either check some unique  property
> > of the file to see if the two files are the same (say the inode number),
> > or to make a check to see if you are on a case-insensitive filesystem
> > and test the condition in the patch only if  that is true.

I think os.path.samefile might help.

> if you change the code to use os.path.normcase(s) instead of s.lower(),
> things should work properly on all platforms.
> 
> (I see that none of my patches are in 0.0.4 :-(, so I'm not going to pre-
> pare a patch for this one...)

No offense was intended; I just haven't had time to merge them because
of the conferences.  I will put them in soon.

-- 
Martin

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