[plt-scheme] module name case lossage in mzc --exe (with PlaneT) on Windows

I would guess a bug in the .zo creation code. It looks like that code
failed to create a .zo file with the right name. It probably should
have created SXML-tree-trans.zo, not sxml-tree-trans.zo.

Robby

On 7/25/07, Andrew Reilly <andrew-scheme at areilly.bpc-users.org> wrote:
> Here's a curly one:
>
> I've got my program up to a stage where I'd like to show it to a few
> colleagues, and I'd like to make that as simple a process as possible, so
> I was planning to use mzc --exe and --exe-dir to produce a version that
> was easy for them to get running.
>
> I've been doing most of my work on Mac OS-X, (with case sensitivity
> turned on in the file system, to be more Unix-like, in case that matters)
> and FreeBSD, but my colleagues all use Windows.  I've verified that:
> * my program works when run as "mzscheme -u program.ss args" on Mac and FreeBSD
> * "mzscheme -u program.ss args" works on Windows command line.
> * mzc --exe program program.ss produces program, which runs as "program args"
>   on my mac.
> * mzc --exe-dir comp program produces a directory where comp/bin/program
>   runs nicely (on my mac).
>
> OK, here's the curly:
> mzc --exe program.exe program.ss, on Windows, stops with the error
> message (transcribed by hand):
> Getting #<path:c:\documents and settings\administrator\application
> data\plt
> scheme\planet\300\370\cache\lizorkin\ssax.plt\1\3\sxml-tree-trans.ss>
> load-handler: expected a `module' declaration for `sxml-tree-trans' in
> #<path:c:\documents and settings\administrator\application
> data\plt
> scheme\planet\300\370\cache\lizorkin\ssax.plt\1\3\sxml-tree-trans.zo>,
> found: SXML-tree-trans
>
> My program is composed of many modules, one of which has the following
> require lines:
>
>   (require (planet "ssax.ss" ("lizorkin" "ssax.plt" 1 3)))
>   (require (planet "sxml-match.ss" ("jim" "sxml-match.plt" 1 0)))
>
> On both the Windows and Mac machines, the planet cache directory
> contains the file SXML-tree-trans.ss, with that capitalization.
>
> I'm guessing that this is a bug in the Windows version of
> mzc, since mzscheme doesn't mind it on either platform,
> and mzc is OK on OS-X.  Is the appropriate work-around to
> rename SXML-tree-trans.ss to lower-case, or to go looking for
> references to it in lower case and change them to upper case.
> Or maybe to change the language settings to be case-insensitive,
> somehow?
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Andrew
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