Even if you are doing any cross-platform file i/o of any kind, you will undoubtedly find it worthwhile. There are a lot of little stupid things that are just slightly different, especially between Windows and other OSes.<br>
<br>As a contributor to the Win32 port of PhysFS, believe me, you don't want to have to deal with that mess if you don't have to. PhysFS is really a simple wrapper that will generally stay out of your way. And being a mature library, it has gone through a lot of testing and patching that make it pretty stable to boot.<br>
<br>From what I recall, it also puts a nice wrapper on things like where the user's home folder is (regardless of OS). That alone makes it worth using as far as I'm concerned.<br><br>Greg<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 4:23 PM, Daniel Aquino <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mr.danielaquino@gmail.com">mr.danielaquino@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Well a simple wrapper to convert path separators wouldn't be that hard ...<br>
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On Jul 16, 2009, at 1:12 PM, Alain Baeckeroot <<a href="mailto:alain.baeckeroot@laposte.net" target="_blank">alain.baeckeroot@laposte.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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Le 16/07/2009 à 18:49, Daniel Aquino a écrit :<br>
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As I sit here I'm wondering what the benefits really are for putting<br>
in the work needed to get physfs into a game...<br>
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as an humble contributor to a game (lincity-ng) physfs allow the developpers<br>
to easyly have a multi-OS game without problems, that's a very nice toolbox<br>
(even if windoz causes some trouble from time to time ;-) )<br>
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If you don't need to acces to files in a simple way, i guess it is useless :-)<br>
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my 2 cents<br>
Alain.<br>
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I obviously know that I could provide updates as zip's that could<br>
easily be rolled back.<br>
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The user can also easily override any file by adding his own to the<br>
write folder.<br>
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You could specify paths to other zips/directories on the cli and it<br>
all just flows there is no need to point at 1 physical directory and<br>
then glue it all all together your self...<br>
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But beyond that what is the benefits ?<br>
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I was trying to reduce the complexity of rolling out version with<br>
multiple files... Previously I use to just push a new exe and it was<br>
simple to click on the exe you wanted to launch... Now that I have lua<br>
and other dll's in the project it's a multi file update that<br>
overwrites previous entries which looses the ability to pick the<br>
version you want to play in... So I was figuring I could come up<br>
with a small boot strapper that would load up a bunch of locations<br>
using physfs, present a list of exe's to the end user, then extract it<br>
and launch it... Then the concept would be that the exe knows (perhaps<br>
based on date strings in the file names) which updates came previous<br>
to it self and doesn't load up any new ones... This way updates could<br>
come in a zip and you can still play multiple versions...<br>
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Any ideas?<br>
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