Comments on: Case sensitivity is hard - for companies like Adobe http://blog.gtuhl.com/2008/01/13/case-sensitivity-is-hard-for-companies-like-adobe/ Software Development, IT, Gadgets, and Startups Tue, 06 Jan 2009 05:53:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: gtuhl http://blog.gtuhl.com/2008/01/13/case-sensitivity-is-hard-for-companies-like-adobe/comment-page-1/#comment-130 gtuhl Mon, 14 Jan 2008 00:35:26 +0000 http://blog.gtuhl.com/2008/01/13/case-sensitivity-is-hard-for-companies-like-adobe/#comment-130 Yeah, from reading around it appears I should have left the sensitivity setting alone (case-insensitive was the default). I just saw case-sensitive and that logically seemed like the correct option. My bigger beef is with Adobe. It boggles my mind to think about how a piece of software could be written such that the case of file paths would make it inoperable. I guess its just from using Linux for a long while but I never assume case insensitivity when looking at a file path, even in windows where it is insensitive. Yeah, from reading around it appears I should have left the sensitivity setting alone (case-insensitive was the default). I just saw case-sensitive and that logically seemed like the correct option.

My bigger beef is with Adobe. It boggles my mind to think about how a piece of software could be written such that the case of file paths would make it inoperable. I guess its just from using Linux for a long while but I never assume case insensitivity when looking at a file path, even in windows where it is insensitive.

]]> By: Tejus Parikh http://blog.gtuhl.com/2008/01/13/case-sensitivity-is-hard-for-companies-like-adobe/comment-page-1/#comment-129 Tejus Parikh Mon, 14 Jan 2008 00:19:21 +0000 http://blog.gtuhl.com/2008/01/13/case-sensitivity-is-hard-for-companies-like-adobe/#comment-129 OSX has is preserved case since 10.3, however, it would just complain if you had a file called AdobeSucks.swf and tried to create a file called ADOBESUCKS.swf. If you attempted to access AdobeSucks.swf as ADOBESUCKS.swf, the system give you a file not found. Which makes the whole thing more bizarre. OSX has is preserved case since 10.3, however, it would just complain if you had a file called AdobeSucks.swf and tried to create a file called ADOBESUCKS.swf. If you attempted to access AdobeSucks.swf as ADOBESUCKS.swf, the system give you a file not found.

Which makes the whole thing more bizarre.

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