Loveify

[Robin]

Let's face it: .love files can be a royal pain in the ass. This is because the major difference most zipping tools think they should zip a folder, and how LÖVE handles them: When most zipping tools (all that I know of, at least) make a .zip file from a folder, they place everything in that folder in the .zip file. And, as we all know, LÖVE doesn't like that. GitHub, for example, is getting quite popular here, and provides a simple Download .Zip-file function, but it uses the no-love method. So you have to unzip it first. It's not that much of a problem, but it is a bit of a mess.

To ease the pain a bit, I wrote Loveify, a Python* script that converts classic .zip or .tar/.tar.gz/.tar.bz archives to working .love files -- without cluttering your harddisk.

*requires Python 2.6 or higher

[osgeld]

Ive not had much issues with *.love files

i just open the folder ctrl-a, compress and change the extension

but whatever works best for you

[Robin]

Ive not had much issues with *.love files

i just open the folder ctrl-a, compress and change the extension

but whatever works best for you

That's what I do when I do it manually. I just prefer not to do things manually .

[subrime]

robin - You wrote the script in python? That's just perverse...

[sauer2]

Lol, he better had written it in Lua as a .love package.

[Robin]

robin - You wrote the script in python? That's just perverse...

would've done it in Lua, if not for the fact that Lua has no standard lib for opening archives. BTW, Python is cool 8-) (just like Lua)

[osgeld]

theres a few floating around to open an archive, but ive not seen one for creating an archive (yet, eventho i have not been looking ALL that hard)

[Robin]

And those libs are floating around for Lua, but for Python they are right in the standard library. Well, each language has their purpose. Python is better suit for small scripts which do relatively complicated things with a minimum of fuss. And I the longer I use both LÖVE and PyGame, the more I get the feeling Lua is better for game programming.