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[Cmdr James]

We know that oolite reads files alphabetically and its a last file wins system for deciding which of the same-named files is used.

I cant help thinking it might be useful to have a warning message written to the log telling us that oolite has found > 1 file of the same name, and is ignoring the first.

On the other hand, I know that this feature is used deliberately to override behaviour in {someting}.oxp with something else, such as the realistic shipyards oxp

[another_commander]

I think it is a very reasonable thing to have a warning that more than one files with the same name have been found, even in the case of it happening deliberately. In the cases where this happens deliberately, we can just ignore the message, but in the other cases, it would be very helpful to know what's going on.

You would only want to limit this to files found in the AddOns folder, though or you would be getting warnings for conflict with the core game files. Additionally, it would probably be better to pop the warning only in the case of same entries found in files with the same name. It is perfectly ok to have two shipdata.plists in two different folders, but the real problem would only start if both shipdata.plists have a reference to, for example, a Cobra MkIII.

[JensAyton]

Hmm… I suppose the dictionary merger could keep a mutable set of stuff-already-seen-in-non-built-in-files.