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the-carlisle-group / Acre-Desktop

A simple Dyalog APL IDE plugin that introduces "projects" and allows you to keep your source code in Unicode text files.
MIT License
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Duplicate Folder Names #206

Closed PaulMansour closed 4 years ago

PaulMansour commented 5 years ago

Acre does not warn that same-name-different-case folder names exists when creating with casecode=off, and misbehaves by merging the contents!

norberturkiewicz commented 5 years ago

I vaguely remember scenarios like this were an argument for case coding all the time, regardless how ugly it looks.

PhilLast commented 5 years ago

Without considering all of the consequences I've implemented this by reporting and refusing to write any of the duplicate folders or items. But only in case-agnostic OSs. (windows &c.) with casecode Off.

No problem is sought, reported or averted if CreateProject is being run in a case-sensitive OS determined by the absence of either of /project/aplsource/ and /project/APLSOURCE/ after /project/APLSource/ has been created.

It might be better if the checks were done willy-nilly, the potential problem reported in either case but only averted for case-agnostic OSs with casecode Off as at present.

The reporting in the case-sensitive OS would warn of the problem were the project to be copied or cloned (is that the right word?) into a case-agnostic OS, naming the offending folders and items.

I suspect acre would be incapable of recognising the problem after the fact as the folders would already have been merged and the files overwritten before acre got hold of them.