[Openmcl-devel] Lisp image filename.

[Chun Tian (binghe)]

>
> On Mon, 6 Oct 2008, David Brown wrote:
>
>> Is there any particular reason for the distinction on darwin of  
>> naming
>> the image by tacking an ".image" onto the filename, and other
>> platforms that use an equivalent named file in uppercase?
>
> Lack of foresight, mostly.  Inertia factors into it, too: there are a
> handful (maybe a few handfuls ...) of places in the code and
> documentation that "know" that some platforms use the case-inversion
> convention and others use ".image".  There have always been exceptions
> to assumptions about a platform's case-sensitivity (it's usually an
> attribute of the filesystem, not of the OS), and those exceptions are
> likely to get more common.  Using the ".image" convention on all
> platforms (as you propose) makes sense and I agree that it's worth
> doing, but the change will probably be at least a little disruptive.
> (Not so disruptive that it shouldn't be done, but at least a little
> disruptive.)

I also suggest this change (using .image convention on all platforms).  
Now It's impossible to checkout CCL repository (non-Mac platform) on  
Mac OS X, just because svn cannot distinguish the two files with the  
same name but different case.

I'm running a Solaris 10 virtual machine on Mac OS X by VMware Fusion,  
and mapping HFS directories into Solaris. I want to checkout CCL for  
Solaris on Mac and then use it in Solaris, but cannot do (the reason  
above). Another side, install a svn client on Solaris 10 is quite  
hard, so many sunfreeware packages to install, and it could be avoid  
if CCL's svn file-case issue is gone...

--binghe