[darcs-users] Windows and boring files

[Trent W. Buck]

"J. Garrett Morris" <jgmorris at cecs.pdx.edu> writes:

> On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 8:55 AM, Richard Fleming <rfleming at acqusys.com> wrote:
>> I notice various "Windows Specific" files within the boring file, for
>> things such as the Thumbs.db files and Visual Source(un)safe files,
>> however, are the paths supposed to be / for Windows also?
>
> Forward slashes work fine - I assume they're converted to the
> platform-appropriate separators somewhere lower in darcs.
>
>> Are the regular expressions case sensitive?  I'm supposing if both are
>> true (especially the first item of course) then it allows more
>> cross-platform support from the file, however I wanted to be sure as
>> it seems as though I was having a few issues with custom boring lines.
>
> Simple experimentation suggests that regular expressions in the boring
> and binary files are case sensitive.
>
> (This is perhaps an oddity on Windows, since the normal convention is
> to be case-preserving but not case-sensitive.)

Richard, would you mind documenting this somewhere on the wiki (or the
LaTeX / literate haskell manual)?

Eric, do we have a documentation manager, like we have issue and release
managers?