[Brl.IO] Any chance to support mounting "zstd" files?

[GWRon]

PHYSFS_mount allows to mount zip-files.

@woollybah do you see any "simple to do" chance to wrap things in a way that you can mount zstd compressed files?

Asking as my savegame is for now an xml file which I compress with zstd for speed and size's sake. Now I thought about splitting things into pieces (to eg only load certain elements ... ). One option would be to ignore certain nodes in the XML file (TPersist...). Another one would be to store various files and only load some one them. This would also allow to store other file formats without having to "encode" them (base64) for xml-compatibility first.

If this is not something doable without too many efforts, then just mention it and I will try to find other ways to achieve the above described "separation".

[woollybah]

Well, zip and zstd are not the same thing. One is a compression method, the other packs files together.

[GWRon]

You are right.

Zip is the container. But can physfs be enabled to work with "zip" using (can it?) the zstd compression algorithm?

[GWRon]

I guess it would mean (indirectly) to have archive.mod-functionality supported by physfs.
(TReadArchive -> PhysFS).

Guess there is no easy route for it. If you think the same, simply close the issue. If you feel like trying out things, drop a line :-)