From: Kent Dahl <kentda@...>
Date: 2002-05-02T20:11:30+09:00
Subject: Re: require and case

Erik B�gfors wrote:
> Allen Mitchell wrote:
> > This should definitely be looked at.  I to agree that "require" might want
> > to be case insensitive.
>  
> Definitely not on my OS since A.rb and a.rb are two different files.

I second that. But...

Isn't this whole problem Windows-centric? I noticed the OP was running
on Windows. Is this a problem on other platforms besides Windows (and
MSDOS)? It might seem like a good idea to make require case-insensitive
on platforms with case-sensitive operating systems, just to make sure
that the "broken" OS doesn't make Ruby appear broken.

Perhaps an optional warning flag for the rest of us that triggers if two
files varying only in case are required, to help making sure that the
code will be fairly compatible with Windows? .

But then again, I was under the impression that the naming convention
for .rb files is all lowercase, so this shouldn't _really_ be any
problem. :-)

-- 
Kent Dahl