Change Setup's package search field to case-insensitive

Ralph Hempel rhempel@bmts.com
Fri Jun 26 16:17:00 GMT 2009


Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jun 26 11:57, Ralph Hempel wrote:
>> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>
>>>> To address the issue of StrStri, I am surprised that msvcrt doesn't have
>>>> something like this but, since it doesn't, I agree that it makes sense
>>>> to use whatever the OS provides.
>>> msvcrt only supports strstr, not strcasestr, unfortunately.
>> Which begs the question:
>>
>>   Does it make sense to lowercase the finder and findee to avoid pulling
>>   in yet another library?
> 
> Back to re-inventing the wheel?

Not really. It's more a case of using two existing wheels that are on
the workbench instead of going to the store to buy another one.

Ralph



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