On Saturday 23 August 2003 21:09, David Culp wrote: > > It would be possible to read the data directly from the archive > > without ever extracting it. Adding an aircraft would then be as simple > > as placing a file into a directory. > > This sounds like too good an idea to let die. This way all the aircraft, > including the default C172, can exist each in one archive. Even the -set.xml > file could exist there. > > Erik, do you have in mind a library of reading functions and which archive > format to use? Since we already use zlib, would the archive be in tar format > with each file compressed using z? The idea of reading each file directly > out of the archive sounds better than unpacking the whole thing first into a > temp directory. > > As far as the directory structure within the archive, it probably won't matter > as long as the -set file is called "archivename-set.xml" and the paths are > defined in it? > > Just thinking out loud here. I have no experience with on-the-fly archive > reading. > > Dave > > -- > **************************** > David Culp > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ****************************
While it will be good to be able to use an a/c arhive without having to unpack it first, can we ensure that it's still possible to use uncompressed a/c? It'll be a real pain developing and testing a/c if a new archive has to be created after each change. LeeE _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
