RE: [GD-General] Building pak/zip files

[Brian H. <bri...@py...>]

> I was going to start looking at zip files sooner or later as 
> well. Currently I just use pkzip to batch build my release 
> files, I was going to do the same thing with the resources as 
> well. Just maintain the assets on the file system as the 
> first search point. Then check in the zip file. Pretty simple. 

Right, this is what we plan on doing.  We have an abstract FileSystem
class, and derived from it are a DiskFileSystem, ZIPFileSystem and a
wrapper called a ChainedFileSystem.  The latter does the "Check disk,
then check ZIP" type thing (you register FileSystems with it in order of
priority).

The issue isn't the ZIP file itself, it's automating the build.  I could
make a batch file or a make file that builds the appropriate ZIP, but I
was hoping there was maybe a slightly more elaborate tool than just
doing a Custom Build step in MSDEV and calling a batch file =)

Brian