Re: [PATCH 1/6] shell32/autocomplete: Introduce helpers for proper enumeration

[Huw Davies]

On 24 Oct 2018, at 13:49, Gabriel Ivăncescu  wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 10:50 AM Huw Davies  wrote:
> > I don't see why do you need a stable sort here.  Using libc's qsort
> > should be fine at first.
>
> Because the strings are compared case insensitively, so keeping the
> order in which they are originally enumerated is important to
> distinguish this, since some apps want to have them in a certain way
> (and probably even provide them already sorted, for example, like
> files on a case-insensitive filesystem, i.e. Total Commander, which
> should be in the exact same way).

I still don't see why this matters.

Huw.