[CF-Devel] case sensitive maps names

[Andreas Vogl]

Mark W. wrote:
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      > I noticed, that in the maps are case sensitive maps.
     
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      > Of course, when you entpack them on non case sensitive OS,
     
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      > we run in some problems.
     
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      > I found
     
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      > pup_land/ancient/mountain/Tower.1
     
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      > pup_land/ancient/mountain/Tower.2
     
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      > pup_land/ancient/mountain/Tower.3
     
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      > pup_land/ancient/mountain/Tower.4
     
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      > pup_land/ancient/mountain/Tower.B1
     
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      > pup_land/lone_town/cave/B1
     
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      > pup_land/lone_town/cave/B2
     
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      > pup_land/lone_town/cave/B3
     
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      > just false checkins?
     
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      > When not, please change this to a lower case name.
     
     
Only the lower case maps are used. I dunno why, but it looks like
I forgot to remove the upper-case versions from cvs some time ago.
Did that now.

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      I would think this should only be a problem in cases where two
     
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      different maps match to the same name because of case insensitivity
     
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      (ie, a tower.1 and Tower.1 in the same dir).
     
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      Looking at the pup land maps, it appears that the lower case versions
     
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      are already used.  the B vs b maps appear to only differ in their exit
     
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      names (so that b1 links to b2, as B1 links to B2).
     
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      I can not find any reference to an exit using the Tower maps, so it
     
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      looks like these have already been fixed as you suggested.  Of course,
     
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      the real is why the capitalized versions are still around when they don't
     
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      seem to be needed anymore.
     
     
We should make map (and directory) names interpreted non-case-sensitive.
That way we automatically prevent conflicts.

Andreas V.