[wix-devs] Issue 5809: WSL, CaseSensitive files on windows

[Sean Hall]

B) All the code should be in the micro repos. The cab code is in
Core.Native, the end user executables/MSBuild tasks are in Tools.

On Fri, Dec 28, 2018 at 2:50 PM Hoover, Jacob via wix-devs <
wix-devs at lists.wixtoolset.org> wrote:

> Sorry, but two more questions...
>
> A) Instead of making a global change, would you prefer a switch (akin to
> smart cabbing but for supporting case sensitive source file system)? Issue
> being if we don't uppercase the dictionary, then all dictionary searches
> have to take the hit of a case insensitive search for what I believe is the
> minority using case sensitive file systems.
> B) With the current 4.x state, is it best to make the change in both 4.x
> and the dutil repo?  I don't see a means to get the 4.x repo to consume the
> dutil repo as of yet.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wix-devs [mailto:wix-devs-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On Behalf
> Of Hoover, Jacob via wix-devs
> Sent: Friday, December 28, 2018 11:59 AM
> To: Rob Mensching <rob at firegiant.com>; WiX Toolset Developer Mailing List
> <wix-devs at lists.wixtoolset.org>
> Cc: Hoover, Jacob <Jacob.Hoover at greenheck.com>
> Subject: Re: [wix-devs] Issue 5809: WSL, CaseSensitive files on windows
>
> Pondering if we should be using DICT_FLAG_CASEINSENSITIVE and then not
> doing the uppercase to begin with... But would we need to support someone
> ever authoring on LSW case sensitive on, and taking 2 files w/ the same
> name and differing case and deploying them with two differing names?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rob Mensching [mailto:rob at firegiant.com]
> Sent: Friday, December 28, 2018 6:07 AM
> To: WiX Toolset Developer Mailing List <wix-devs at lists.wixtoolset.org>
> Cc: Hoover, Jacob <Jacob.Hoover at greenheck.com>
> Subject: RE: Issue 5809: WSL, CaseSensitive files on windows
>
> Jacob, if you're looking for something to work on, this would be great to
> get fixed in the dutil repo.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wix-devs <wix-devs-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org> On Behalf Of
> Hoover, Jacob via wix-devs
> Sent: Thursday, August 2, 2018 3:30 PM
> To: WiX Toolset Developer Mailing List <wix-devs at lists.wixtoolset.org>
> Cc: Hoover, Jacob <Jacob.Hoover at greenheck.com>
> Subject: [wix-devs] Issue 5809: WSL, CaseSensitive files on windows
>
> Added more info on https://github.com/wixtoolset/issues/issues/5809
>
> The end result is we are broken when cabbing and a path is used with case
> sensitivity turned on.  I can only assume we upper cased the file name to
> prevent duplicates.
>
> Thanks,
> Jacob
>
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