[QGIS-trac] Re: [Quantum GIS] #1044: crash when creating new GRASS location on Windows

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#1044: crash when creating new GRASS location on Windows
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        Reporter:  lubaby                                     |         Owner:  nobody       
            Type:  bug                                        |        Status:  new          
        Priority:  critical: causes crash or data corruption  |     Milestone:  Version 1.0.0
       Component:  GRASS                                      |       Version:  0.11.0       
      Resolution:                                             |      Keywords:               
Platform_version:                                             |      Platform:  Windows      
        Must_fix:  Yes                                        |   Status_info:  0            
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Changes (by marcopx):

 * cc: jef at norbit.de (added)

Comment:

 Replying to [comment:4 msieczka]:
 > Bug confirmed under WINE 1.0.0 configured to emulate Win XP, on amd64
 Debian testing using Marco's "QGIS 0.11.0 for Windows pre-release testing
 installer".
 >
 > Indeed it seems the culprit is Windows is not case-sensitive as
 GNU/Linux is.

 Absolutely! Windows is NOT case sensitive. As I said two months ago, there
 would be a simple solution: introduce a *name check* function to prevent
 this error, checking if the location's name (that is the folder) already
 exixts and, if yes, telling that the location *Bug* already exists and
 reprompt for a new name.

 I donn't know if that should be done in GRASS code; actually I think that
 we could do that in one of the src\qgis-dev\src\plugins\grass\ cpp files

 Jurgen?

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.osgeo.org/qgis/ticket/1044#comment:5>
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