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Re: [RFA/mingw32] environment variables are case-insensitive on win32


On Dec 10 18:24, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2012 17:17:10 +0100
> > From: Corinna Vinschen <vinschen@redhat.com>
> > 
> > > If some versions of Cygwin are case-insensitive in this context, while
> > > others aren't, then a run-time test of the kind coded by Jerome is
> > > _exactly_ the Right Thing.
> > 
> > These old versions are not at all supported anymore.  The right thing to
> > do in this case is update.
> 
> Why is requiring users to upgrade more reasonable than half a dozen
> lines of simple code?

Old, unsupported.  What you do by adding these tests and special cases
is to complicate the tests and add potential bugs for no good reason.


Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Project Co-Leader
Red Hat


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