Re: [opendemo-devel] zlib

[Dr. U. G. <Uwe...@ph...>]

Hello!

> As I said in my earlier message, we could just move everything inside the
> mod's game directory and use them just for quake3 mods. Is the stuff in
> there really that useful outside of quake3?
You're totally right. A memory buffer, file-buffer or a XML parser aren't so
special. There are other full-featured software projects out there dealing
only with this kind of stuff.

We could equally put everything in the main game directory.

> > > The zlib stuff shares some functionality with
> > > od_filebuf.c, so maybe the reimplimentation could combine the two.
> > I think odFread() should be replaces by gzread() and nothing more. This
> > can easily be done before or after the ring-buffer comes in place.
> I had thought that zlib kept its own buffer for decompressed data, but it
> appears that it does not.
Even if it keeps its own buffer, the API is gzread() only. I'm sure zlib has
a backlog buffer; thats the base idea of decompression: pointer to already
found material some bytes ago. If you increase this window, you get better
compression but the zlib standard API is gzread() as a direct replacement for
read().

> I'll commit my code if you commit yours... :)
I have one hour this evening and maybe two tomorrow. This should be enough.

> I'll move the zlib code over from the test mod to the opendemo tree (in
> opendemo/src/libs) tomorrow.
I think you just convinced me, that opendemo/src/q3a/opendemo/game/zlib is a
better place? But it is your code and your directory layout anyway.

Bye, Uwe