[FreeSpaceFreak]

I just got FSO rev 8896 from SVN and compiled; apparently, filenames are now case sensitive when not packed in VPs. The MVPs run fine, but the test mod attached will not work like it should: the "Data" folder is not recognized as a game directory. Rename it to "data" and it will work (you'll get a black choose-pilot screen).

Can anyone reproduce this, or did I simply mess something up in compiling?

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[niffiwan]

I've seen this before on Linux, I assumed it had always been that way.  I believe Windows has a non-case-sensitive filesystem, so it doesn't care, Data & data are the same to it.

[FreeSpaceFreak]

If that's expected behaviour, it makes modding on Linux a pain... The Windows modders can and will use arbitrary capitalization without errors, but the same modpack will produce loads of errors on a case-sensitive system. Granted, with FRED Windows-only, there's not many Linux modders around, but still.
How hard would it be to fix this? I'd think it's simply a matter of converting all filename strings to lowercase before storing/using them?

[niffiwan]

Well, you can get around this particular issue by using softlinks - i.e. ln -s Data data, a hard link would work as well (ln Data data) - I've used this before when necessary.

I haven't looked at the relevant code, so I'm not sure how easy this would be to change.  In theory it would be quite simple (as you say) - and the VP reading code seems to do this already.

(and yes, modding on Linux is a pain - I can't get FRED 3.6.14RC6 to save anything when running under wine - always CTD's )

[FreeSpaceFreak]

Huh, apparently it's only the folder names that are affected - filenames can be capitalized no problem, but the directories must be all lowercase. Odd...

[jr2]

Wait.  IIRC   .vp files aren't case-sensitive.  So, you can do w/e with the filename, provided it resides in a .vp file.  You could test this theory out.  Extract a .vp to the appropriate directories, then move the .vp away and rename one of the files using another case.

[FreeSpaceFreak]

Aye, the MVPs work fine - they have capitals in directory names, right? (Anyone know of a VP viewer that compiles on *nix?)
But in a non-VPed setup, the directory names must all be lowercase for FSO to recognize them.

[niffiwan]

MajaExpress is what I've been using: http://www.hard-light.net/wiki/index.php/Maja_Express (requires Java, OpenJDK seems to work fine)

[FreeSpaceFreak]

Great, thanks