On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 11:21 PM, Artyom <artyomtnk@yahoo.com> wrote:
There is a lot of software that packs files together inside a zip or another container, for better or worse.
But it also become unzipped before it runs... You can't run exe from zip archive, it always previously unzipped to some temporary location.
I'm sorry, I didn't mean as a distribution format, but as the primary data store used by the application. Some apps (it sounds like Joël's is one) keep their assets in a .zip or some other container, separate from their executables. One good example would be in games, where such virtual filesystems are quite popular as a way of efficiently grouping files and portably reducing I/O and fragmentation. Perhaps you could let users supply a functor open_file(filename), and they can choose to open the path however they want, from whatever source. The default functor would use what you currently have. Would this be prohibitively difficult? -- Cory Nelson http://int64.org