[Zope-dev] Re: [Zope3-dev] status of Zope versus zope?

Martijn Faassen faassen at infrae.com
Sat Jun 5 06:23:06 EDT 2004


Fred Drake wrote:
> On Friday 04 June 2004 12:33 pm, Martijn Faassen wrote:
>  > Hm, that's not a big deal then. I'm just at a loss how this would fix
>  > the case-insensitivity import problem on Windows; I think I'm missing
>  > something.
> 
> Modern Windows is case-preserving, and Python uses that to get the imports 
> right.  The case-senselessness problem is that the directories "zope" and 
> "Zope" can't exist in the same directory, not that they can't be perceived by 
> Python to be two differently-named Python packages.

Thanks, now I get it. That's good to hear; my worries are gone now; this 
isn't a show stopper for Zope 3 on Zope 2.

Regards,

Martijn



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