Re: [AD] SF.net SVN: alleg:[11766] allegro/branches/4.9/src/macosx

[Thomas Fjellstrom <tfjellstrom@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat March 7 2009, Elias Pschernig wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-03-07 at 07:54 -0800, Evert Glebbeek wrote:
> > > clean up all the pixel format conversion stuff
> >
> > You mean src/pixels.c?
>
> Not just that. There's a few places where a huge array from all pixel
> formats to all others is constructed from what I remember. It's just
> hard to work with right now. Basically, some code re-factoring to make
> adding a new pixel format a trivial task would be nice. Such a new
> format would not be optimized in any way, but also there would be no
> hidden errors in all drivers all of a sudden.
>
> And connected to the above, we simply should document how to add
> optimized paths for some formats. The original idea was to have a
> function for each possible format combination, but that was going over
> the top, as adding a new format now would mean writing a converter to
> and from all other formats, so it's prohibitive. Just need to re-think
> this a bit.
>
> > Yes, that would be cool. Both would be nice, actually.
> > In fact - if we have a zlib addon, do we even still need stdio (except
> > when zlib is not available)? From what I remember, the two are pretty
> > much function-for-function compatible, so zlib could replace stdio,
> > right?
> > Someone mentioned PhysFS for reading .zip files (among other formats).
>
> Ah, yes, might be a better idea than libzip then.

Thats the route I'm taking. a plain zip addons would be doable using zlib, but how would a plain zlib driver work? what format would archives be in? (no, tar archives are not a solution, they are a pain in the butt, you have to decompress the tar archive just to access the tar headers).

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