From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2002-05-07T07:43:22+09:00
Subject: Re: require and case

Hi,

In message "Re: require and case"
    on 02/05/07, Dave Thomas <Dave@PragmaticProgrammer.com> writes:

|I'm becoming convinced by this thread that rb_require should normalize
|all paths before executing, and should store those normalized paths in
|$". Thus on a Windows box the names should be converted to lower case
|and expand_path called. On a Unix both, the case should be left
|unchanged but expand_path is called. On other boxes, other rules will
|apply.

I feel other way around.  Requiring "feature names" should appear same
on all platforms, i.e. (basically) lowercase words, joined with
slashes.  This convention also enhances script portability.

							matz.