On Mar 7, 2014, at 9:47 AM, Eitan Adler <lists_at_eitanadler.com> wrote: > On 7 March 2014 11:41, Rui Paulo <rpaulo_at_freebsd.org> wrote: >> On 6 Mar 2014, at 23:30, David Xu <davidxu_at_FreeBSD.org> wrote: >>> it seems filename ended with a dot is illegal on Windows, if someone >>> wants to check out freebsd source code on Windows, it will be a problem. >> >> Is this something we want to support? > > Yes. > >> NetBSD made some invasive changes on their source tree to be able to support case-insensitive filesystems (like renaming 'cvs' to 'xcvs' to avoid clashing with the 'CVS' metadata directory), but they support building NetBSD on many different platforms. > > Has anyone enumerated the problematic files for FreeBSD ? Last time I looked there were only a handful. I’ll conduct a census and get a concrete enumeration of the problem… Warner >> We don't support that yet, though. > > However, being able to checkout out the source code is a prerequisite > to building out other platforms. > >> The file in question can be easily renamed, I think. > > -- > Eitan Adler > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe_at_freebsd.org"Received on Fri Mar 07 2014 - 16:19:22 UTC
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