[katello-devel] Case sensitive behavior in katello

[Lukas Zapletal]

On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 12:25:41PM -0400, Eric Sammons wrote:
> Coming from GSS and having been a customer I can assure you that DEV == dev == Dev in a production world.  Anything like Library->DEV->dev would be bad design within a company because in the real world dev is dev is dev regardless of how you type it.  The same goes for usernames; in fact most web ui apps will convert for you the username entered to the case supported (for example I have seen, esammons at example.com get changed to ESAMMONS at EXAMPLE.COM, perhaps they have a Mainframe backend).
> 
> So while I may not agree here that allowing Dev DEV and dev, I am more of the opinion that we either fix it or we document it because as is the current behavior could be dangerous.

In particular, why having both DEV and dev is a bad thing? Personally, I
like the possibility of having them, while I understand it can be pretty
cluttered.

In any case, we can expect UTF-8 issues (Ruby 1.8 vs Ruby 1.9), because
there are many non-US characters that has uppercase and lowercase
variants. External dependency will likely need to be introduced for Ruby
1.8. Does it really worth the change?

-- 
Later,

 Lukas "lzap" Zapletal
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