John Maddock wrote:
Rene Rivera wrote:
As has been said in a previous, similar discussion, simple disallowing of upper-case characters doesn't work. Bjam's files are called Jamroot and Jamfile, and the capitalization matters.
Ah, no ;-) Boost.Build will handle any of:
project-root.jam [Jj]amroot [Jj]amroot.jam [Bb]uild.jam [Jj]amfile.v2 [Jj]amfile [Jj]amfile.jam
I personally prefer the ones with the .jam extension :-) But I don't see a problem with using capital letters in file names. And more important, the restriction may not be appropriate for all file/dir names in the svn repo.
Note that our submission policy (http://www.boost.org/more/lib_guide.htm#Directory_structure) states:
"File and directory names must contain only lowercase ASCII letters , numbers, underscores, and a period. Leading character must be alphabetic. Maximum length 31. Only a single period is permitted. These requirements ensure file and directory names are relatively portable."
We had files named Jamfile for year. I'm not aware of any practical problem that has caused. So, I don't think that even *discussing* handing the filename case, at least for Jamfiles, is a productive use of time. - Volodya