Re: samba + win = case (in)sensitivity evil

Gods, why do IT/IS groups continue to insist on this stupidity?!? How much harder would it have been to install Cygwin on the developer's Windows box and use CVS / Subversion / SourceSafe / flavor-of-the-week source control, stored on some other who-cares-what-it-is box? Seriously!

My development group has been using Cygwin for almost a year and have been extremely pleased with it. You get the best of both worlds - it truly is a wonderful thing. And, most open-source distros have a Cygwin-build option. :-)

Here's the beautiful thing - modern source control systems will handle the line-ending issues. The case-sensitivity crap is something that Windows (and only Windows) users have to deal with. Mac OS-X, being a BSD-based system, doesn't have those issues.

Being right, does not endow the right to be rude; politeness costs nothing.
Being unknowing, is not the same as being stupid.
Expressing a contrary opinion, whether to the individual or the group, is more often a sign of deeper thought than of cantankerous belligerence.
Do not mistake your goals as the only goals; your opinion as the only opinion; your confidence as correctness. Saying you know better is not the same as explaining you know better.

I shouldn't have to say this, but any code, unless otherwise stated, is untested

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Re^2: samba + win = case (in)sensitivity evil by SpanishInquisition (Pilgrim) on Sep 30, 2004 at 12:59 UTC
. You get the best of both worlds - it truly is a wonderful thing. And, most open-source distros have a Cygwin-build option Well it makes the bad world a little less painful, but anything involving Windows is not the best of any world. For the record, I vastly prefer a MinGW environment to cygwin. Faster, and actually maintained to some degree...	[reply]
Re^2: samba + win = case (in)sensitivity evil by Anonymous Monk on Oct 01, 2004 at 18:56 UTC
> Gods, why do IT/IS groups continue to insist on this stupidity?!? > Being right, does not endow the right to be rude; politeness costs nothing. > Being unknowing, is not the same as being stupid. Maybe they're just "unknowing". And maybe your mantra is really just a meaningless soundbite that even you don't believe. Me, I love the irony. Thanks for the chuckle.	[reply]