[NTG-context] Bad names

[Alan Braslau]

On Fri, 8 Feb 2019 23:26:21 +0100
Hans Hagen <j.hagen at xs4all.nl> wrote:

> On 2/8/2019 10:22 PM, Marco Patzer wrote:
> 
> > What is a bad name for context? Does it have any consequences if badly named
> > files are used? Just being curious.
> Bad names are names that can result i a miss when looked up on a case 
> sensitive system. When you have a workflow where images come from e.g. 
> graphic designers don't be surprised to get names with inconsistent 
> casing, one of more spaces in a row, multiple suffixes (or wrong ones), 
> etc etc ... now when images are referred to e.g. from xml files that 
> also come from someplace it can get pretty hard to find where something 
> goes miss. So, here we always normalize (az09-).
> 
> In a tex tree files with the same name can lead to wrong lookups 
> depending on the order of configured paths. There context alway has had 
> case insensitive lookups.

Because people use brain-dead file systems
we get to use brain-dead file names, case-insensitive, etc., etc.

This can be a bit frustrating for those used to working with real file systems
and real (arbitrary) file names, but it gives better results
for the least common denominator, i.e. Windows... :-(

Alan