[tex-live] mktexlsr ignores "rcs" on a Windows 7 machine

[Shinichi Sakata]

Manuel,

Well, mktexlsr of TeXLive 2007 on my Debian Linux box, which is a
shell script, is case-sensitive. But I was talking about the one for
Windows. Mktexlsr of TeXLive 2009 installed on my friend's Windows 7
box is a binary executable file (i.e., the one with extension
.exe). So, the source code can be quite different from the shell
script version of mktexlsr you are talking about.

Anyway, TeXLive 2009 contains a LaTeX package named rcs, which is
sitting in directory rcs. The feature of the windows' version of
mktexlsr keeps users from using it, because rcs/rcs.sty never shows up
in ls-R. This is a bug in my opinion, though it can be bypassed easily
if you know what is going on, as I mentioned in my initial message. By
the way, rcs.sty used to be in latex/misc. A possible solution may be
to move it back there.

  Shinichi

From: Manuel_Pégourié-Gonnard <mpg at elzevir.fr>
Subject: Re: [tex-live] mktexlsr ignores "rcs" on a Windows 7 machine
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 18:00:56 +0200

> Le 18/08/2010 17:27, C.M. Connelly a écrit :
> > "ZW" == Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wagner at gmail.com>
> > 
> >     ZW> RCS directory is an administrative area of an RCS working
> >     ZW> copy (similarly CVS directory for CVS wirking copy). Such
> >     ZW> directories should not be seen by TeX. Unfortunatelly,
> >     ZW> Windows file systems are not case sensitive, so they
> >     ZW> consider rcs and RCS being equal.
> > 
> > The default Mac OS X filesystem is also not case sensitive, so it
> > would be nice if any scripts in TeX Live didn't assume
> > case-sensitive filesystems.
> > 
> To the best of my knowledge, no script in TeX Live assumes a case-sensitive
> filesystem.
> 
> The problem here is not really case sensitivity, it's rather to known if
> ignoring "well-known" directories used by popular VCSes, namely
> 
> 	.bzr .git .hg .svn CVS RCS _darcs
> 
> does more good than harm.
> 
> Manuel.