[physfs] What are the real benefits of PhysFS ?

[Tim Čas]

"Or if you (or someone else) decides to port your application later?"

Port to a OS with a case-insensitive filesystem, that is.

But as I said, this creates a LOT of problems and should be avoided at all
costs.

2009/7/17 Tim Čas <darkuranium at gmail.com>

> You should NEVER EVER name files like that (even if you're not a
> programmer) - because, what happens when you, say, copy the files onto an
> USB drive with a FAT partition that Windows would read? (remember: Win is
> not case-sensitive)
>
> Or if you (or someone else) decides to port your application later?
>
> 2009/7/17 Daniel Aquino <mr.danielaquino at gmail.com>
>
> If physfs is not case sensitive then what happens when your on unix
>> and you have FILE.txt and file.txt in the same folder ?
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 1:29 PM, Daniel Aquino<mr.danielaquino at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > hm ok so your saying that physfs works in a non case sensitive
>> > manner... that would infact fix problems on linux...
>> >
>> > On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 1:27 PM, Indy Sams<indy at driftsolutions.com>
>> wrote:
>> >> Hello Daniel,
>> >>
>> >>        No, he's saying using physfs that it will find it with
>> PHYSFS_openRead, etc.
>> >>
>> >>        It's only when adding files/dirs to the path that  you have to
>> worry about the case of the zip file for example: file.zip != FILE.ZIP on
>> Linux, but on Windows file.zip == FILE.ZIP
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Friday, July 17, 2009, 12:45:38 PM, you wrote:
>> >>
>> >> DA> so are you saying that while using physfs if you try to find
>> file.txt
>> >> DA> it won't find FILE.TXT ?
>> >>
>> >> DA> On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 12:41 PM, Ryan C.
>> >> DA> Gordon<icculus at icculus.org> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>>>> What file name case issues does it help with?
>> >>
>> >>>> On Windows, file.txt and FILE.TXT are the same thing. On Linux, they
>> are
>> >>>> different files. Having all your i/o come out of a zip file avoids
>> this
>> >>>> issue (or, at least, limits it to only worrying about getting the
>> case of
>> >>>> the .zip file itself right).
>> >>
>> >>>> --ryan.
>> >>
>> >>
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>> >> Best regards,
>> >>  Indy Sams
>> >>  mailto:indy at driftsolutions.com
>> >>
>> >>  P.S. This is what part of the alphabet would look like if Q & R were
>> eliminated.
>> >>
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