Can Love zip files? (IT CAN NOW!)

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Can Love zip files? (IT CAN NOW!)

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I know Love can handle /un/zipping... But is it able to zip files (for instance, game save files)?
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I know I made a FR for it, but i'm not sure if it ever actually got done.
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http://lua-users.org/wiki/CompressionAndArchiving has lots of working options. The downside of course being that it becomes harder to release cross compatible products.
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Thank you. That may be very handy, depending on how large my latest project's save files start becoming...
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No, love doesn't support it, technically, it isn't even unzipping.
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I sunk my coding-claws into LibCompress and hacked it to pieces. I now possess a version that is 1/10 the size of the original script, and no longer has any dependencies. It works pretty nicely, too. It's very fast, and reduces the size of my test save file to 36% of its original size.

If anyone wants a copy, I can upload it somewhere.
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Ooh, you should upload everywhere if it's that awesome!!!
  • The LOVE tutorials (or some related place on the Wiki).
  • GitHub as a Gist.
  • The LOVE Wiki.
  • A blog if you have one.
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Taehl wrote:I sunk my coding-claws into LibCompress and hacked it to pieces. I now possess a version that is 1/10 the size of the original script, and has no longer has any dependencies. It works pretty nicely, too. It's very fast, and reduces the size of my test save file to 36% of its original size.

If anyone wants a copy, I can upload it somewhere.
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I'm out of touch with the whole open source thing, to be honest. Please inform me why should I use GitHub instead of LuaForge, SourceForge, Google Code, or something?

And I suppose I could put a little tutorial on the wiki (not that it really needs one, IMHO) with a download link or something... Assuming they fixed that old bug, and I'm now able to edit the wiki.
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Taehl wrote:I'm out of touch with the whole open source thing, to be honest. Please inform me why should I use GitHub instead of LuaForge, SourceForge, Google Code, or something?
Because it's the most social place for code. Also, I don't know whether the others can work with distributed version control like Git or Mercurial.
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