Re: [AD] [4.3] VFS

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On Sunday 23 July 2006 4:41 pm, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote:
> On Sunday 23 July 2006 1:15 pm, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote:
> > Now that 4.3 is being focused on, we need to think about what is
> > absolutely nesessary for allegro to include in its core for "VFS"
> > features.
> >
> > IMO Allegro 4.2 has most of the features its going to need, except they
> > need to be moved to the system driver, or a separate "fs driver" (to
> > enable different drivers per system, stdio vs. win32 etc).
> >
> > At the bare minimum I think allegro needs all the basics you find in
> > stdio, open, close, read, write, stat, opendir, readdir, closedir,
> > getcwd, path conversion functions, ie: win2unix, unix2win, etc.
> >
> > My current work in progress VFS system resides here:
> > www: http://svn.tomasu.org/index.cgi/vfs/browse/trunk/
> > svn: http://svn.tomasu.org/repos/vfs/trunk/
> >
> > Not much is left to do in my wip system. And allegro DOES need some
> > fs/vfs hooks to allow its media (graphics, sound, etc) to be loaded from
> > any format a user wishes to use, like dat, zip, etc. (my vfs will include
> > a zip handler)
>
> I've put together a basic Proposal at
> http://svn.tomasu.org/repos/vfs/trunk/vfs_proposal.xhtml
> http://svn.tomasu.org/repos/vfs/trunk/vfs_proposal.odt

Ok, since I didn't seem to get much/any feedback on this, I'm going to assume 
there were no major objections.

Now to start, should I just use a local copy, or maybe a allegro svn branch?

-- 
Thomas Fjellstrom
tfjellstrom@xxxxxxxxxx




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