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UFS is supported for boot volumes, too!
Authored by: Uli Zappe on Jun 08, '05 12:29:07AM
UFS is supported for boot volumes, too, so even if you stick to (as you call it) "supported" formats, you might still format your boot disk with a case-sensitive format. (Of course, HFS+ case-sensitive is also supported, it just doesn't show up in the Installer GUI.)

In other words: the only real solution to this problem is to bug each and every developer who is unable to capitalize correctly until they finally get this right. Programming languages are case-sensitive, anyway, so this is pure carelessness on the developer's part! So far, I have contacted more than 10 developers (big and small) and had them fix their code successfully. The more users do this, the faster all Mac OS X apps will run on case-sensitive file systems.

BTW, this is no Carbon-specific problem. The most famous example of a Cocoa app that didn't work correctly on a case-sensitive file system might well be Keynote 1.x - by no less than Apple itself ... (Keynote 1.x could not read its own templates because of a capitalization inconsistency).

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XCode should warn about capitalisation errors
Authored by: voldenuit on Jun 09, '05 12:15:07AM

It would be really great if XCode threw warnings whenever capitalisation errors are made.
HFS being finally case-sensitive is a big step to even more portability of code and there is really no point at all to have that advantage ruined by sloppy programmers.



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