[physfs] Lua Bindings

[Daniel Aquino]

I think if you wanted to share it then it's better to use physfs as  
the name then allow the user to disable io

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On Jul 15, 2009, at 11:14 PM, Gerry JJ <trick at icculus.org> wrote:

> Den Wed, 15 Jul 2009 21:48:50 -0400
> skrev Daniel Aquino <mr.danielaquino at gmail.com>:
>> Has anyone ever shared lua bindings for physfs ?
>
> I've done a couple times, but never really shared anything .. I could
> maybe dig one up and clean it up a bit ..
>
>> Mainly all I need right now is dofile() and require() to use  
>> physfs...
>
> Don't forget loadfile.  Also, if you want it to be complete,  
> everything
> in io, package.loadlib, os.execute, os.remove, os.rename, maybe
> os.tmpname.  Or just nil them.
>
> Well, depends what you want to do..  Just PhysFS *support*, or
> inability to use anything else ..
>
>> I figure "physfs" would be a good module name to hold the  
>> functions...
>
> I usually just replace the entire io module (well, only implementing  
> the
> parts I actually use..), so that all io go through physfs  
> automatically
> and I don't have to worry about it.
>
> (This obviously won't work with code that use Lua's C api for loading
> stuff though.  Not much to do about that .. Lua uses stdio all over  
> the
> place internally, so adding internal support isn't easy either.)
>
> - Gerry
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