[Buildbot-commits] [Buildbot] #1892: SetPropertiesFromEnv should be case-insensitive on Windows

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#1892: SetPropertiesFromEnv should be case-insensitive on Windows
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Reporter:  dabrahams    |       Owner:
    Type:  defect       |      Status:  new
Priority:  major        |   Milestone:  undecided
 Version:  0.8.3p1      |  Resolution:
Keywords:  windows git  |
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Comment (by dabrahams):

 Replying to [comment:5 tom.prince]:
 > I am inclined to follow pythons lead, and leave this up to the user.

 Leave ''what'' to the user?  Figuring out that the system is squashing
 everything to uppercase and making the necessary adjustments?  In case you
 think otherwise, you're not currently offering any flexibility in exchange
 for a serious usability impediment.

 > In addition, I wonder if windows actually supports case-sensitivity in
 variable names,

 It does, in the sense that if you ask it to list the environment
 variables, it will show them to you with the case you originally specified
 them with.  It does not, in the sense that you can't have two separate
 variables called "Foo" and "foo".

 > and cmd.exe just coerces everything to uppercase.

 cmd.exe does not coerce.

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