[CF-Devel] case sensitive maps names

Sun Apr 8 20:33:33 CDT 2001

To this issue:
The really crazy one thing is, that you CAN store filenames and
Directorys in windows9x and higher case intensive lie BlaBla or BLABLA
- it will saved and shown on file system. Of course, it handles BLABLA
as the same as BlaBla.

Bad point is, when someone then save a map as Tower.1 and this can/get
commited
in this style (i can't see this, but there is 100% a way to do it).

Well, there is always a way to make it more complicate...

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      Andreas Vogl wrote:

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      > We should make map (and directory) names interpreted non-case-sensitive.

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      > That way we automatically prevent conflicts.

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       interperting them in case insensitive gets trickier on the unix side (the

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      efficient way to do it would be to read the directory entries and

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      see if we get

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      a match, but this certainly adds overhead)

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       However, making sure there are no conflicts should be a given

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      (ie, no two files

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      should match in name in a case insensitive matter) - in this way,

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      the files can

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      be unpacked on a system with case insensitive names and not get anything

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      clobbered.

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       For things like faces, treating them case insensitive would not

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      be too hard, as

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      once the archs and relevant face files are generated, we never

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      have to search

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      the directory again.

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