Traction on case insensitivity on windows.

[Alexander Belchenko]

Raindog пишет:
> I've recently had some ridiculous problems due to  case sensitivity of 
> bzr on windows in which i get tons of conflicts, folder moves/renames, 
> file deletes, adds, removes, renames etc.
> 
> Has there been any traction on resolving this in 1.3?

Please, sorry me for my bad English, but what "traction" means?
bzr 1.3 was released last week, so there is no chance to have
any case-insensitivity support improvements till 1.4 (in best
case).

But looking at the situation around windows support closely one could
see that there seems to be only 2 developers working on windows support:
Mark Hammond and Alexander Belchenko.

IIUC, Mark Hammond currently working on TortoiseBzr.

Alexander Belchenko working on bzr in his own free time, and he has very small
amount of free time besides his regular job and his family. Currently he's
working on simple implementation of line-endings support. Because this problem
is one of 3 most wanted (other 2 is performance and nested tree support).

If anybody want to help in implementing case-insensitive filesystem support,
I can help with advices and tests. If nobody want to try get stab on it,
then I will write such code when I will have enough time and motivation.

Despite the fact I'm working 90% of my time on Windows, I managed to avoid
case-insensitive problems in my work. So although case-insensitiveness is REALLY
BIG AND IMPORTANT PROBLEM, but it's not problem for my own everyday usage
of Bazaar, and therefore it's not itch for me to scratch urgently.

It means: sorry, but it'll take a while.

PS: Anybody wanna send us a patch?