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Well, I've been researching recently ways to implement the package system that we're looking to use in The Mana World. About a week ago I stumbled across PhysicsFS, a nice cross-platform library that abstracts access to various archives, and makes them transparent to the program itself. Anyway, any thoughts or ideas on how this would integrate would be cool. Just tell me what ya think

Sounds like exactly what we're looking for. What are its dependencies?

Actually it comes with all the stuff you need to compile it, including zlib. So it has no other dependencies really.

Ah well I'm glad it'll link against an existing zlib as well. I've build the dynamic library for Arch Linux now and with 80 kb this library looks nicely small too. Yeah so now we should be thinking about integration.

I was thinking about writing a c++ wrapper around it or smth. If you give me the go ahead I'll get to work on that

Well the C++ wrapper could be the resource manager, right?

ah right, I see what you're saying