[freespace2] Questions...

[Bradley Bell]

Quoting Taylor Richards <mtrs at bellsouth.net>:
> No it's the other way around.  I put them (B5 stuff) in VP archives to
> get around the case sensitivity problems.  Though I haven't really used
> a lot of mods I haven't seen one yet that was in a vp archive.  Mostly
> they are just a zip file or something that you extract into the Data
> directory.  It's mostly an issue with the way the mod maker references
> files in different cases and that's why some mods work better than
> others.  I haven't looked at how cfile searches vp archive files yet to
> see if that same to see if that same tactic can be used on non-archive
> files.  If it can't I haven't thought of a way to do it that's not
> completely insane and probably not worth trying.  I'll put that on my
> list of things to check out this weekend, unless someone else wants to
> volunteer.

I assume it's the same way descent cfiles work.  Just lowercase the file you're
looking for, and compare it against the (also lowercased) list of files in the
cfile.  I agree that trying to do it for non-archive files would be a hassle (to
do it right) and probably not be worth it.  Case-sensitivity is a feature, dammit!

-brad