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Modding / File miscapitalization detector -- cross platform mods FTW
« on: December 08, 2015, 04:23:30 AM »
Hi!
TL;DR : I'm working on a file capitaliztaion VS file reference capitalization checker tool. Where should I look for a mod's stored references (e.g. filename strings in code) to compare them to the actual filename recorded on the file system?
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Every time I try to play StarSector with many mods I spend a few hours just debugging case mismatches between the file system and the mods' code - e.g. "starsector/mods/mod/somedir/image.PNG" referenced as "somedir/iMage.png". This is not a problem on any Windows as the OS ignores file case BUT NTFS does store filename entires with case. Thus the mods' uploaded zip archives contain the file path+name and the reference with different cases. Linux and UNIXes are on the other hand do not ignore case mismatches causing a few errors during startup.
As I see many modders use Windows and many mods/Linux users suffer from the above issue.
I'd like to implement a tool (in Java with both a GUI and CLI) to automatically check for these issues before running Starsector and waiting for long long times between each detected mismatch. So far I have seen mismatches on image files and maybe even on a .java source file. Where shall I look for these files/which files can be affected by this and where shall I look for references to these files?
@Alex : maybe enforcing case matches in StarSector file access routines OR including some checking+warning toggleable dev tool would help a lot to Linux folks like myself in the future
I might be wrong on that Java is capable to read back the file name case-correctly, in which case I'm sorry for the technical inaccuracy in my post! (And am gonna use C++ in my project in this case.)
Also sorry for not RTFMing, but as this is quite a meta-modding question I think it'll be faster and more accurate to rely on modders' experiences regarding this.
Thank you for the help in advance!
Regards,
Garmine
TL;DR : I'm working on a file capitaliztaion VS file reference capitalization checker tool. Where should I look for a mod's stored references (e.g. filename strings in code) to compare them to the actual filename recorded on the file system?
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Every time I try to play StarSector with many mods I spend a few hours just debugging case mismatches between the file system and the mods' code - e.g. "starsector/mods/mod/somedir/image.PNG" referenced as "somedir/iMage.png". This is not a problem on any Windows as the OS ignores file case BUT NTFS does store filename entires with case. Thus the mods' uploaded zip archives contain the file path+name and the reference with different cases. Linux and UNIXes are on the other hand do not ignore case mismatches causing a few errors during startup.
As I see many modders use Windows and many mods/Linux users suffer from the above issue.
I'd like to implement a tool (in Java with both a GUI and CLI) to automatically check for these issues before running Starsector and waiting for long long times between each detected mismatch. So far I have seen mismatches on image files and maybe even on a .java source file. Where shall I look for these files/which files can be affected by this and where shall I look for references to these files?
@Alex : maybe enforcing case matches in StarSector file access routines OR including some checking+warning toggleable dev tool would help a lot to Linux folks like myself in the future
I might be wrong on that Java is capable to read back the file name case-correctly, in which case I'm sorry for the technical inaccuracy in my post! (And am gonna use C++ in my project in this case.)
Also sorry for not RTFMing, but as this is quite a meta-modding question I think it'll be faster and more accurate to rely on modders' experiences regarding this.
Thank you for the help in advance!
Regards,
Garmine