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From: Muttley@DastardlyHQ.org
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Subject: Re: Rationale for aligning data on even bytes in a Unix shell file?
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2025 12:38:53 -0000 (UTC)
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On Wed, 30 Apr 2025 12:25:34 +0200
David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> wibbled:
>On 30/04/2025 11:06, Muttley@DastardlyHQ.org wrote:
>> On Wed, 30 Apr 2025 09:45:20 +0200
>> David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> wibbled:
>>> More relevant to this group, it make also be convenient for people
>>> trying to work with big C code bases that were written on Windows and
>>> you now want to compile (for whatever target you want) them on Linux.
>>> I've seen code bases developed on Windows machines where the
>>> capitalisation of include directives was inconsistent - that works on
>>> case-insensitive filesystems, but not on case-sensitive systems.  (Yes,
>>> I know there are many other ways to deal with such issues, but putting
>>> the source code in a case-insensitive directory on ext4 is one option.)
>> 
>> I've seen on more than one occasion C++ (not C yet) projects where there
>> were 2 files only different in case, eg: Network.cpp and network.cpp where
>> the former would be the class and the latter would be procedural support
>code.
>
>I'd question the wisdom of such a convention.  I'd rather have clearer 
>separation of the filenames, or perhaps use different directories, 
>aiming to make it hard to mix up the names.  But maybe it is an 
>appropriate choice in some situations - perhaps alternative naming 
>schemes were considered worse in other ways.

Its certainly not a scheme I'd use, but I've also seen Makefile and makefile
in the same package build directory in the past.