Windows case-sensitivity detection - partly fixed

Ian Clatworthy ian.clatworthy at internode.on.net
Wed Dec 5 00:54:04 GMT 2007


DeeJay wrote:

> More work needs to be done on detecting and preventing the
> corruption in the first place - new bug reports have been lodged on
> those topics, and discussion on how to deal with them has followed.
> 
> So, if you'll have me, I'm back on board as a one-man-band user
> of Bazaar on Windows. But not uncritically.

You're very welcome. Thanks for being picky - constructive feedback on
what we need to do better is much appreciated. Please continue to raise
problems as you find them, test fixes and keep us honest.

> I've been making suggestions to Ian for making the documentation
> he is working on 'Windows-friendly'. Overall, it still seems to me
> that Windows is a bit of a second-class citizen: for instance, much
> of the documentation does not acknowledge Windows

I still need to clean up some bits (re $HOME, etc.) in the doc - I
haven't forgotten them. The vast majority of the doc ought to be
platform agnostic, but I'm open to adding information to helping users
on Windows for example. Perhaps an appendix in the User Guide is
appropriate covering things like:

* case insensitive filenames
* line ending handling
* handling of symlinks
* Windows specific plugins
*etc.

Feel free to suggest what you think needs to be covered. I'll gladly
take text as well. :-)

We are committed to making Bazaar run well on multiple platforms -
Linux, Windows and OS X in particular. Martin has outlined some plans to
increase usage of Windows within the core team and to extend our
pre-commit testing to cover Windows. The more users we get on Windows,
the better. We're about enabling choice and choice of OS is an important
part of that.

Ian C.



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