On Sun, Sep 15, 2024 at 4:00 PM Robert P. Goldman rpgoldman@sift.net wrote:
In afraid that the system lookup works for you but will not work in general so the documentation must remain as is.
No, the documentation incorrectly implies that system names containing uppercase and underscores are invalid in general, when that only applies if logical pathnames are in the picture. I hope you'll clarify that.
I read the documentation and showed up here because I thought the code actually works the way it is described. What a pleasant surprise to find out it doesn't!
We support users who use logical pathnames. We also support users on case insensitive and case preserving file systems.
OK. I don't want ASDF to somehow distinguish case on a case-insensitive file system. I only want ASDF to allow for case distinction if the file system already allows it. This is, in fact, how the code actually works at present -- I'm asking you to make that clear in the documentation.
These restrictions were not just imposed arbitrarily: they have a rationale, as I’ve tried to explain.
These aren't restrictions in general, so I'm asking you to make it clear that these restrictions only apply in special cases.
Robert