lib.normalize is really slow and called very often. If mods were doctored during the install step, they wouldn't have to have their paths corrected during staging. This would provide a sizable speedup for modlists with a large number of loose files.
Existing mods will have to be handled in some way or another so users don't have to reinstall their modlists when lib.normalize is removed from staging.
In my very humble modlist, lib.normalize is called upwards of 44,000 times just from launching ammo then running commit.
The purpose of lib.normalize is to prevent the same folders but with different casing from being created inside of the game directory.
lib.normalize is really slow and called very often. If mods were doctored during the install step, they wouldn't have to have their paths corrected during staging. This would provide a sizable speedup for modlists with a large number of loose files.
Existing mods will have to be handled in some way or another so users don't have to reinstall their modlists when lib.normalize is removed from staging.
In my very humble modlist, lib.normalize is called upwards of 44,000 times just from launching ammo then running
commit.The purpose of lib.normalize is to prevent the same folders but with different casing from being created inside of the game directory.
E.g.
should only create one folder path with all three files under it: