[jkap]

This may be somewhat irrelevant, but what is the motivation for having a case-sensitive HFS volume? I agree that Adobe should support it (and separate volume installation) because these are edge cases that should be accounted for, but I've never heard the reasoning for having a case-sensitive format.

[hasker]

I just always have done it because I want my mac to act like a normal UNIX system. I suppose it was kind of a principle thing.

[bigiain]

This is why I do it. To make my local dev system a bit closer to my (typically linux) deployment systems.

(I remember wasting a lot of time once on a rookie mistake where I had a Perl script with "use Strict;" in it instead of "use strict;", it worked fine on Mac OS (OS9, in this case), but failed in at-the-time-inexplicable ways when deployed on unix. I suspect my habig of insisting on choosing case-sensitive filesystem stems largely from that… And yeah, doing perl/cgi webdev on Mac OS9 was a really bad idea, I discovered.)

[Moto7451]

I presume it partially is due to POSIX. Here's an errata from MS about that: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/100625

(TLDR: NTFS itself is Case sensitive even though the Win32 API isn't because NT was/is designed for POSIX compliance)