[physfs] Multiple contexts in one process

[Sherief Farouk]

Mods and scriptable components having multiple filesystem “namespaces” is
my current use case. It’s especially essential for tools more than the
actual engine / runtime.

On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 01:03 Francesco Bertolaccini <
bertolaccinifrancesco at gmail.com> wrote:

> I don't have a specific use case right now, but I can imagine it being
> very useful if, for example, a game wants to use PhysFS both for general IO
> and for sandboxing stuff like user mods, so that the engine has access to
> the whole tree while mods are only allowed to look at their own data
>
> On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 9:26 AM, Sherief Farouk <
> sherief.personal at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> That's how this branch currently implements it - so far everything is
>> backward compatible, I was just surprised by Ryan's comment and was
>> wondering whether he'd ever consider a non-backwards-compatible future
>> path. I currently have no plans to suggest changes that break backwards
>> compatibility - if it comes to that I think a fork would be better. I'm
>> curious to hear whether you have a use case for this feature.
>>
>> On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 9:33 PM Francesco Bertolaccini <
>> bertolaccinifrancesco at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> What if backwards compatibility was provided by keeping a default global
>>> context that can be accessed through the current API, but actually acts as
>>> a thin wrapper around the new reentrant interface?
>>>
>>> Il ven 18 mag 2018, 06:25 Ryan C. Gordon <icculus at icculus.org> ha
>>> scritto:
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>>>> > At what point would you consider giving a solid yes / no to whether
>>>> this
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>>>> > is welcome as a future feature to PhysFS? If I don't need to maintain
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>>>>
>>>> > backwards compatibility I can move faster and implement a leaner API,
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>>>> > though a complete fork is something I usually prefer to keep as a
>>>> last
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>>>> > resort.
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>>>> I'm definitely not interested in breaking backwards compatibility, and
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>>>> I'm not sure I'm interested in the feature in general, either.
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>>>>
>>>> --ryan.
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