[GRASS5] imagery sample data has duplicate case-sensitive filenames

[William Kyngesburye]

huh?  I saw those changes listed for the 5.0.0 prereleases.   
5.0.0pre3 to 5.0.0pre4:

<http://grass.itc.it/grass5/source/NEWS.html>


On Nov 24, 2005, at 10:19 AM, Glynn Clements wrote:

>
> William Kyngesburye wrote:
>
>> (Not sure if it's OK to use the bug report form for a sample data
>> issue, so I'll just use the list)
>>
>> In the IMAGERY GRASS 5 and 6 sample data, there are files named
>> 'GROUP' and folders named 'group' at the same folder level, as well
>> as 'SUBGROUP' and 'subgroup'.  This does not work on a case-
>> insensitive (tho case-aware) file system such as HFS+ as is used in
>> Mac OS X.
>>
>> I believe GROUP is the old method that is now CURGROUP (changed in
>> GRASS 5).  and similar for SUBGROUP.
>
> Correct. It used to be the case that the files were called CURGROUP
> and CURSUBGROUP on Cygwin (to prevent clashes with the "group"
> folder), and GROUP and SUBGROUP on other systems (which would
> presumably have a case-sensitive filesystem).
>
> This was changed back in the 5.3 branch to always use CURGROUP and
> CURSUBGROUP. Sample data for 5.3/5.7/6.x should be using the new
> names. Sample data for 5.0.x will have to use the old names (because
> those are the names which the imagery library uses), and won't work on
> systems with case-folding filesystems.
>
> -- 
> Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>

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