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Panic on windows due to case insensitive filesystem #34

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@caesay

This will panic on Windows:

fn main() {
    let path = PathBuf::from("test.log");
    write_some(&path);
    write_some(&path);
    write_some(&path);
    let path2 = PathBuf::from("Test.log");
    write_some(&path2);
    write_some(&path2);
    write_some(&path2);
}

fn write_some(path: &PathBuf) {
    let mut writer = file_rotate::FileRotate::new(
        path,
        file_rotate::suffix::AppendCount::new(1),
        file_rotate::ContentLimit::Lines(10),
        file_rotate::compression::Compression::None,
        None,
    );

    let _ = writeln!(writer, "Line 1: Hello World!");
    for idx in 2..=7 {
        let _ = writeln!(writer, "Line {}", idx);
    }
}

thread 'main' panicked at C:\Users\Caelan.cargo\registry\src\index.crates.io-1949cf8c6b5b557f\file-rotate-0.8.0\src\lib.rs:554:9:
assertion failed: !new_path.exists()

I think this is because scan_suffixes populates a BTreeSet of suffixes, and then when move_file_with_suffix executes it thinks there is no file to move because self.suffixes.get(&new_suffix_info).cloned() returns None, but Path.exists() returns true because windows is case insensitive.

On a more general note, I think logging should generally fail-safe, if something goes wrong, it should be best effort (not panic). After reviewing the code when looking into this issue, the number of .expect() and assert!()'s is.... troubling.

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