On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 6:10 AM, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
As long as the filesystem is case-preserving
But that's exactly the catch; you see things like .JPG and .GIF primarily on files that are copied from case-insensitive filesystems, and, less often, from software that hasn't been updated since those were pervasive on the operating system(s) the software was intended for (commonly written by programmers without experience with case-preserving systems). As such legacy fades (however slowly), should we *increase* the amount of code that deals with it, or should we move on? Keep in mind that with the advent of Python 3, we're putting a lot of effort into shedding much more recent "legacy". -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake at gmail.com> "Chaos is the score upon which reality is written." --Henry Miller