[Mono-list] VFAT vs Unix filesystems...

[Alexander van Berne]

Chris, your explanation is correct, but ... AFAIK mono aims to be 100% 
compatible with .NET which is running on a case-insensitive environment. 

I agree it is not a bug, simply different behaviour. However if my assumption 
"targeted at 100% compatibility" is correct, not only should mcs be "fixed" 
but also should mono. Eventough I can't imagine a really clean solution, it 
should be given some thought .

Alexander

On Wednesday 08 January 2003 06:02, Chris Ball wrote:
> >> On 08 Jan 2003 01:21:59, Pablo Baena <pbaena@uol.com.ar> said:
>   > I have a Classpath.dll on Windows. I compile the program with: mcs
>   > /r:classpath chachacha.cs which ends successfully.  Then when I run
>   > the prog in Linux, mono fails because it doesn't find classpath.dll,
>   > and this is solved renaming the dll, but this is just annoying.
>
> The distinction occurs because vfat is a case-insensitive filesystem and
> Unix filesystems aren't.  If mcs was made case-insensitive, what would
> happen if Classpath.dll was present _as well as_ classpath.dll on a Unix
> filesystem?
>
> Personally, I don't believe the current behaviour to be buggy - more a
> representation of the environment - nor able to be ``fixed'', whatever
> that would entail.
>
> - Chris.

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