Perhaps you just implement a zip library into source. You could then package
all the scripts into a zip file; you don't even have to worry about checking
if the player already has the files.

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Garry Newman
Sent: Thursday, 11 September 2008 9:37 PM
To: Discussion of Half-Life Programming
Subject: Re: [hlcoders] Client File Download

Unblocking it would still affect GMod10.

GMod10 downloads Lua files using the downloadables table method with a
dua extension, into a seperate 'download cache' folder, then uses the
files from there.

Ideally there'd be a callback into client.dll from the engine saying
like "hey should we download this file", then one saying "hey we
downloaded this file".

And ideally it'd download more than one at a time. Especially if it
was just being HTTP redirected.

But life ain't that perfect.

garry


On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 3:22 AM, Haza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Blocking lua files in other mods is just stupid, what happens when the mod
> developers use a different extension, or none at all, I just think this
> hot-fix for gmod 9 should be removed from OB.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stephen
Swires
> Sent: Thursday, 11 September 2008 11:50 AM
> To: Discussion of Half-Life Programming
> Subject: Re: [hlcoders] Client File Download
>
> What are you talking about? Garry's Mod 10 downloads Lua files anyway
> with its own system, and Garry's Mod 9 still uses the Ep1 engine and
> will always do so.
>
> Andrew Ritchie wrote:
>> did the Virus makers go "Oh this new engine is very pretty I don't want
to
>> make viruses for it anymore, I've learned the error of my ways"
>>
>> because Garrys mod is now on the Orange Box engine, and it's still
> possible
>> for mods to implement LUA in the dlls
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 2:16 AM, Haza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> They could at least remove it in Orange Box Engine.
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom
> Leighton
>>> Sent: Thursday, 11 September 2008 9:38 AM
>>> To: Discussion of Half-Life Programming
>>> Subject: Re: [hlcoders] Client File Download
>>>
>>> Gmod 9 is still about, and with it the lua viruses are still about.
>>>
>>> Stephen Swires wrote:
>>>
>>>> I think Valve should remove this rather out-dated block.
>>>>
>>>> Mulchman wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 3:07 PM, joshua simmons
>>>>>
>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> It seems odd that they blocked .lua at the engine level rather than
>>>>>> garry patching it. But at any rate you can just use another
extension.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> We (fortress forever) thought the same thing when asking about this a
>>>>>
>>> long
>>>
>>>>> time ago (in a galaxy far far away).
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