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Re: New Cygwin 1.7.0-18 in release-2
On Jul 31 03:28, Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote:
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> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> | setup is a Win32 application. It won't know about this. Thou shalt
> | not create packages which rely on case-sensitivity as part of the
> | net distro.
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> That's what I thought. So while managed mounts will no longer be needed
> for building, something still needs to be done for the packaging stage.
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> So far my idea is to adapt cygport's make_managed_mount[1], but remove
> the mount/umount commands. I should also add a postinstall check to
> make sure illegal filenames aren't being installed without special
> handling.
Illegal? The only illegal chars are slash and backslash, even on
case-insensitive mounts. Does it really occur often that you have two
filenames in the same dir only differing by case?
Corinna
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