Boo, Steam on OSX won't run on a case-sensitive file system.

[tatteredpotato]

I opted for case-sensitivity since I'm used to it in Linux, but when I went to install Steam it says it requires a "Case-Insensitive" volume.

Oh well at least I still have bootcamp.

 

[simonizor]

Sounds like a stupid idea in the first place. Why would you turn on something that does absolutely nothing other than possibly provide compatibility issues down the road? If you would have chosen case-insensitive, you could still type out commands or whatever you're doing in the correct case and it wouldn't make a difference.

 

[skace]

Create an additional volume that is case-insensitive.... Steam can use a whole drive by itself no problem.

 

[TheStu]

Create an additional volume that is case-insensitive.... Steam can use a whole drive by itself no problem.

Not in OS X it can't, at least not yet. As it stands right now, you cannot move where Steam parks itself in OS X. Which is annoying since I have another drive in my computer just for installed games and it of course already has a Steam folder.

 

[skace]

Hah thats a weird limitation

 

[DaveSimmons]

Sounds like they were too lazy to update a bunch of existing Windows code they're sharing with the OS X version (Windows file functions are always case-insensitive).

 

[skace]

Sounds like they were too lazy to update a bunch of existing Windows code they're sharing with the OS X version (Windows file functions are always case-insensitive).

It's not lazy if it allows them to maintain the code better for the life of the product....

 

[DaveSimmons]

Supporting case sensitivity properly, for example using the same capitalization of file and folder names throughout, would work on Windows too it just isn't necessary. In other words, fixing the code for OS X shouldn't break it for Windows.

The only thing that wouldn't work is if the customer wanted to have 2 folders with essentially the same name, such as Steam and steam.

In fairness it's possible that some of the games themselves weren't written properly for a case-sensitive file system. Valve can't be expected to fix that too.

 

[Lotheron]

Supporting case sensitivity properly, for example using the same capitalization of file and folder names throughout, would work on Windows too it just isn't necessary. In other words, fixing the code for OS X shouldn't break it for Windows.

The only thing that wouldn't work is if the customer wanted to have 2 folders with essentially the same name, such as Steam and steam.

In fairness it's possible that some of the games themselves weren't written properly for a case-sensitive file system. Valve can't be expected to fix that too.

If those games are also based on code written for Windows in mind, that would probably be correct.