(a) someone should make a mantis report
(b) Mostly you ask if the FileDirectory instance is case sensitive, but in one place you ask if the FileDirectory activeDirectoryClass isCaseSensitive

Obviously you could work out if the file directory is on a volume which supports case sensitivity, then alter the code so you ask always ask the FileDirectory instance
which asks the VM? 


On 2010-03-16, at 5:00 AM, Bert Freudenberg wrote:

> On 16.03.2010, at 12:55, Juan Vuletich wrote:
>> 
>> Frank Shearar wrote:
>>> Edgar J. De Cleene wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On 3/16/10 8:36 AM, "Juan Vuletich" <juan at jvuletich.org> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Hi Folks,
>>>>> 
>>>>> FileDirectory activeDirectoryClass isCaseSensitive answers false on a
>>>>> Mac. this is a bug, right?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>> Juan Vuletich
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Mac OS X ~= Unix
>>> 
>>> OS X uses a case sensitive filesystem, so it sounds like a bug.
>>> 
>>> frank
>> 
>> I apologize. I shouldn't post before my second coffee. Let me restate:
>>  FileDirectory activeDirectoryClass isCaseSensitive
>> answers true on a Mac. This is a bug, right?
> 
> Yes. But only half a bug. Maybe a ¾ bug ;)
> 
> In HFS+ volumes, case-sensitivity is optional and off by default. So the default Mac Harddisk is not case-sensitive. And if you pop in a FAT-formatted USB drive it's not case-sensitive either.
> 
> However, the whole case-sensitivy issue in Squeak is much too coarse-grained anyway. You can mount a case-sensitive filesystem in Mac OS X, just like you can mount a case-insensitive filesystem in Linux. What we use is just a zero-order approximation. What would be needed is to support case-sensitivity on a per-volume base.
> 
> - Bert -
> 
> 
> 

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