[MacPorts] #49559: nepomuk-core can't be installed on a case-sensitive system (was: neponuk can't be installed on a case-sensitive system)

[René J.V. Bertin]

On Friday September 30 2016 03:48:09 Ryan Schmidt wrote:

>> Still: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=369554
>
>Thanks.

Let's not hold our breath though. Addressing this issue properly will be very invasive: lots of dependent code will require patches. And even if the patching can be done more or less automatically the patched code will then be locked to the latest version of the frameworks.

The only lever I really see is the fact that there has been a growing idea that KDE apps should behave as natively as possible; so support bundling as standalone app bundles on OS X. That will include support for dragging to and from FAT32 thumbdrives without breakage, and that's probably possible only if you make no assumptions at all about filename case.

Note however that MacPorts' reproducible-build principle also kind of imposes the use of a case-sensitive FS at the user end. I think that's the only way to guarantee that users build exactly the same binary images as the build bots do... ;)

R.