Vladimir Prus wrote:
Beman Dawes wrote:
Vladimir Prus wrote:
Beman Dawes wrote:
The final requirements for directory and file names are now posted at http://beta.boost.org/development/requirements.html#Directory_structure Hmm, lowercase filenames? I hope you are not suggesting to go and rename every "Jamfile" to "jamfile"? No, we've always made an exception for that.
Which filesystems, exactly, require single-case filenames, how many bug reports from users of those filesystems we've got, and what market share do those filesystem have today? The problems I've seen aren't with file systems, but with programs that partially enforce ISO-9660:1999.
The footnote sounds like filesystems are the issue:
Some legacy file systems require single-case names. Single-case names eliminate casing mistakes when moving from case-insensitive to case-sensitive file systems.
The other issue is consistency; what does the convention become?
Well, there are very few files that are traditionally spelled in anything by lowercase. I think saying that header files must be in lowercase, and that source files should be in lowercase, is enough.
Or perhaps "By convention, file and directory names are all lower case unless there is a compelling reason to use a different convention for a specific name." We don't have any mechanical way of enforcing that, but at least it gives clear guidance. We can check, however, that a directory doesn't contain two names that differ only in case. What do others think of this approach? --Beman