VM source stucture

Tim Rowledge tim at sumeru.stanford.edu
Wed Oct 4 00:27:01 UTC 2000


Ned Konz <ned at bike-nomad.com> is widely believed to have written:

> Tim Rowledge wrote:
> 
> > > Note that hand-written plugin source files must be in directories
> > > whose names begin with a capital letter,
(Trivial correction here - I didn't say that, Ian's README did)
> 
> This assumes that you're using an OS that distinguishes between
> different-case filenames (Windows, generally, does not, though it
> does (sometimes) preserve case). There may be some make utilities, etc. from
> the Unix world that do respect case (the cygwin stuff comes to mind),
> but I wouldn't count on it.
I don't know how portable any of the structure proposed in Ian's latest
tarfile is really. I know all about case-sensitive/not, long file
names/not, links/not etc from too much bitter experience!

My suggestion for the naming and structure was in the start-message
of this thread.

tim

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