[Python-Dev] Buildbots have trouble checking out the repository due to recent changes.

[Paul Moore]

2008/5/12 "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de>:
> > 1.0. There are still case folding bugs in 1.0 - I'm working on fixing
>  > them. But there will never be a complete fix for this situation, as
>  > it's simply not possible to checkout the exact svn layout of that
>  > revision on a case-folding system, it simply can't be supported
>  > (without name mangling of files in the working directory).
>
>  Assuming this is NTFS, notice that it is not the file system that is
>  case-folding, but the API. If you pass FILE_FLAGS_POSIX_SEMANTICS to
>  the API, you can get case-sensitive behavior (to some degree, as there
>  are bugs in that API, as well).

Hmm, that's interesting information. I suspect I could easily create
more bugs than I solve by using it, but it's interesting to know
nevertheless.

Thanks,
Paul.