Hi users and devs,
I would like to have your opinion on the topic of case sensitive vs case
insensitive and which one you prefer in XWiki.
Currently, XWiki is case sensitive. This means the same resource name
(document name, space name, etc) can be written with either small letters
or big letters or a mix.
Examples: You can have both "Main.Test" and "Main.test" as 2
different
documents. Also, you can have "XWiki.Admin" and "XWiki.admin" as 2
different users. This also applies to URLs, as "/Main/Test" is different
from "/Main/test" or "/main/test", so all these 3 are different
resources.
Even from this short description, one can already identify possible
problems of this approach.
From the top 3 operating systems (Linux, Mac an
Windows), only Linux is
case sensitive, the other two (more user-focused Operating
Systems) are
both case insensitive.
Since XWiki has one of its main targets the Enterprise users, it is safe to
assume that the correct approach would be to also be more user-focused and
simplify things and avoid confusions by being case insensitive as well.
Also, a quick search on existing issues validates the need for this
improvement:
http://jira.xwiki.org/issues/?jql=text%20~%20%22case%20insensitive%22
What do you think? Is it OK to keep XWiki case sensitive, or would you
prefer it case insensitive? Bring arguments.
I have also created a jira issue for this idea:
http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-11412 to track it in the future.
Thanks,
Eduard