Re: Bundling several Lua modules in one file

[Andreas Krinke <andreas.krinke@...>]

Luís Eduardo Jason Santos schrieb:

> We have been working a project called LAR [1] that is part of the Kepler 
> Project. Recently, we have put some brain into this discussion and found 
> no portable/comfortable way to load binary modules without extracting them.
>
> LAR is a virtual file system for Lua using ZIP compression. It has been 
> developed quite a long ago, and have never achieved beta status. The 
> code in the CVS is functional, but could use some extra hands.
>
> [1] http://luaforge.net/projects/lar/

Thanks a lot for this info. Currently I am using PhysFS [1] for my 
little engine [2]. PhysFS provides a whole virtual file system and 
supports several compression formats. But it's nice to know there is 
something more lightweight to achieve at least a part of this 
functionality. Unfortunately this doesn't solve the binary module loading.

[1] http://icculus.org/physfs/
[2] http://scrupp.sourceforge.net

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