[petsc-dev] petsc-dev on bitbucket

Satish Balay balay at mcs.anl.gov
Thu Feb 9 20:31:59 CST 2012


On Thu, 9 Feb 2012, Sean Farley wrote:

> >
> > Isn't Matt pissed off with this? 'BuildSystem' -> 'buildsystem'
> >>
> >> [I thought the naming scheme with caps was important - and looks like
> >> bitbucket doesn't support that]
> >
> >
> > Who architects an entire configuration that is dependent on the file
> > system? Both mac and windows, by default, are case-insensitive. Making
> > something this fragile is just asking for pain later. Just search the
> > mercurial and git mailing lists for unicode issues and see what a mess it
> > is to rely on capitalization.
> >
> 
> Also, URLs aren't guaranteed to be case-sensitive in the standard.

hmm - the url 'http://petsc.cs.iit.edu/petsc/buildsystem' doesn't work - so
atleast apache uses case sensitive urls.

satish



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