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Re: [RFA/mingw32] environment variables are case-insensitive on win32
> Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2012 17:57:27 +0100
> From: Corinna Vinschen <vinschen@redhat.com>
>
> 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.
Again, we are talking about short and straightforward code. Nowhere
near any danger of complicating things and adding bugs. Since when do
we fear adding a bunch of string comparison lines?