On 05/01/2014 11:57 PM, Baptiste Fontaine wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I downloaded the latest tarball (0.5.2), and got an error while unarchiving it because they are two files with the same name but a different case:
>
> mat-0.5.2/MAT/
> mat-0.5.2/mat
>
> This is because by default on OSX (and I think on Windows too) filenames are case-insensitive, so you can’t have both a ‘MAT’ file and a ‘mat’ one.
> I temporarily solved this issue by using tar’s -s option which allows one to rename a file while unarchiving.
> I rename `MAT` into `_MAT`, then rename `mat` into `mat-cli`, rename
back `_MAT` into `MAT` (I somehow wasn’t able to rename `mat` into
`mat-cli` while unarchiving),
> then install it using `./setup.py`, then rename back `bin/mat-cli`
into `bin/mat`.
I always though that OSX could handle case concern the right way™. Thank
you for pointing this out.
>
> For the context, I wrote a formula for Homebrew, a package manager for OSX, that would allow anyone to install MAT with `brew install mat`. You can find the pull request here:
>
> https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/pull/28871/files
Wonderful! I replied on the issue.
>
>
> Thank you for your time,
Thank you for spending time on porting MAT to OSX!
>
>
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> Baptiste Fontaine
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