[Zope-dev] Differing case for Buildout on Windows

[Jim Fulton]

On Feb 5, 2009, at 3:36 PM, Sidnei da Silva wrote:

> I've been constantly bitten by a very annoying bug: depending on how
> you call buildout on Windows, a full rebuild might be triggered, if
> only the case differs. For example, all the following calls cause
> buildout to think settings have changed and that things need to be
> rebuilt. Note only the drive letter changes:
>
>  c:\Python24\python.exe bin\buildout-script.py -c
> c:\src\some-project\buildout.cfg
>  c:\Python24\python.exe bin\buildout-script.py -c
> C:\src\some-project\buildout.cfg
>  C:\Python24\python.exe bin\buildout-script.py -c
> c:\src\some-project\buildout.cfg
>  C:\Python24\python.exe bin\buildout-script.py -c
> C:\src\some-project\buildout.cfg
>
> Now, I'm wondering what is the best way to fix it. I originally
> thought of fixing the data as it comes into buildout, but that would
> cause existing buildouts to all possibly trigger a rebuild. I'm now
> thinking of fixing the place where buildout detects that the path has
> been changed as to normalize the path.
>
> Thoughts?


I think it would be easiest to have buildout normalize the config path  
using os.path.normcase where it is input.

Jim

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Jim Fulton
Zope Corporation