Case sensitivity

["Brown, Keith" <KB...@develop.com>]

Hello all,

I searched the archives of this list to see what was happening on the
Win32 file system case insensitivity front, and apparently some
discussion back in February occurred [1], and a patch [2] was submitted
(the patch added an ignoreCase attribute to <fileset/> which would have
helped me greatly), but it doesn't appear as though this patch was
committed.

I read the various threads I could find by searching the archives, but
it wasn't clear what the current thought is on this problem. Let me
state that I'm happy to help by submitting patches; I'd just like to get
my head in synch with what you guys are thinking.

[1]
http://www.mail-archive.com/cgi-bin/htsearch?config=ant-dev_jakarta_apac
he_org&restrict=&exclude=&words=fileset+case+sensitive

[2]
http://www.mail-archive.com/ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org/msg02333/bug368.p
atch

Keith Brown
http://www.develop.com/kbrown

Re: Case sensitivity

[Stefan Bodewig <bo...@apache.org>]

Stefan Bodewig <bo...@apache.org> wrote:

> Personally I wouldn't mind an ignorecase attribute for fileset (and
> probably for MatchingTask as well) as long as its default was false.

On second thought, it should be an attribute of patternset, not
fileset.

Stefan

Re: Case sensitivity

[Stefan Bodewig <bo...@apache.org>]

Keith Brown <KB...@develop.com> wrote:

> I read the various threads I could find by searching the archives,
> but it wasn't clear what the current thought is on this problem.

I don't think there is something like "the current thought".
Personally I wouldn't mind an ignorecase attribute for fileset (and
probably for MatchingTask as well) as long as its default was false.

The patch and discussion back then came at a time where I didn't have
the time to follow Ant development as close I wanted to, so I don't
know what other's thoughts have been.

Stefan