Re: [DirectPython] I am back

[Heikki S. <ho...@gm...>]

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From: Sebastian Lucas [mailto:del...@gm...]=20
Sent: 29. elokuuta 2007 4:25
To: ho...@gm...
Cc: dir...@li...
Subject: Re: [DirectPython] I am back


Hi Heikki!

Great!
We're almost crying... (not seriously  =3DP).

But like other users, I found that directpython is one of the best =
modules
for python that I've never seen before. =3D)
Thanks for this module. =3D)=20

I've just one suggestion, and that is:
Can you can include some kind of "virtual filesystem" to DP?
I mean a virtual filesystem based on zlib or something like that.

I know it's not up to DirectX but resourcepackager is a messy way to =
package
our resources (I don't like to write the files down to read them).=20

Thanks,
And sorry for the troubles.

Regards,

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Sebastian Javier Lucas
Programmer & Guitar Hero =20
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Hi,
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I don't think that creating a virtual file system is very high on my =
list of
current tasks. Sure, it could be useful but I don't think that most =
people
really need it. Simple system is relatively easy to implement with the
zipfile-module, but the advantages are not that great. It is harder to =
use
during the development and slower than the native filesystem. C++ side
support for this filesystem would be hard to implement because many
COM-objects use the normal filesystem no matter what. You would have to
unpack the wanted file to a temporary directory when you want to create =
d3d
objects from the resources. With large amounts of data (meshes, =
textures) it
would be quite wastful.
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If you really want to do it, zipfile has pretty good support for things =
like
that. It does not take much time to implement simple loadfile() and
savefile() calls which maps the file path to the actual file stored =
inside
the .zip file.
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Heikki Salo