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On Friday 31 December 2004 05:21, Peter Wang wrote:
> Here's a patch that implements custom packfiles, i.e. PACKFILEs where
> the user supplies the methods for reading, writing, etc. No
> documentation yet. I think the changes are simple enough for 4.2.
I agree! I think this is something a lot of people wanted to have as well.
> It's not possible to use the Allegro's packfile compression with
> pack_fopen_vtable(), nor can you use pack_fopen_chunk() on
> vtable-packfiles. That also explains why there is no load_datafile_pf().
Too bad... I don't suppose there's an easy way to change that?
> Basically this is a quick hack to allow people to make use of the image
> and sample loaders with data stored in memory, or within non-datafile
> "wad" formats (e.g. zip files). I'll leave it to you guys to decide if
> it's worth including for 4.2.
I think so.
> expackf.c is code I was testing with. It won't compile by itself but it
> shows how the API can be used.
Ok. I'd like there to be a proper example in the examples directory when
it's final.
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