Not *really* a bug - filesystems are "close to the metal", and the lexicographic order used in computers today places 'Z' before 'a'.GrumpyJoe wrote: Sun Feb 10, 2019 5:38 am has anyone reported the "bug" that in the mod list capital letters are sorted first, then the lower ones, still alphabeticly? I just noticed that when looking for "air filter" when i didn´t find it at the top of the list of mods to sync
To make it worse, mod load order, when no dependencies are specified, depends on lexicographic order -
(well, it *has* to depend on something !).
I'm willing to bet that some mod authors already used capitalization to resolve mod load order issues !
Sadly, it would seem that there aren't any really common best practices for capitalization in file naming - the one that I found that I like the most is to reserve capitals for Important Files, ALL-CAPS for the REALLY IMPORTANT ones.
(Not only that makes them more visible, if you list the files in the case-sensitive order, they would be listed first.)
In Factorio's case that would mean that the only (non-user-created) capitalized files in the mods folder should be Mod-settings.dat and Mod-list.json (currently not capitalized). (Perhaps they even should be ALL-CAPS ?)
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