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Gideon Weems
Member #3,925
October 2003
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Thomas said: Or if you want a truely fast decompressor, try LZO Heh. You know, I've read about that algorithm before, and I only remembered after seeing the pic on the main page. "Space Grade Technology". But that shouldn't overshadow Zip support; it's awesome. I'm grateful for the people who made it possible. Thanks Tobi, vtable authors, et. al. I'll do some testing. |
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BAF
Member #2,981
December 2002
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We should add this right into allegro, after it is more complete. Then that would make allegro dependent on zlib, but if the license allows it, we could include the needed zlib code right in allegro |
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Elias
Member #358
May 2000
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Quote: We should add this right into allegro, after it is more complete. Then that would make allegro dependent on zlib, but if the license allows it, we could include the needed zlib code right in allegro Nah, the better route would be to include this into an extra distribution, which contains allegro + some useful addons, all packed up as a single download and easy to install. -- |
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CGamesPlay
Member #2,559
July 2002
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As far as that goes, what about the licensing of Allegro? zlib isn't restrictive -- Ryan Patterson - <http://cgamesplay.com/> |
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Matthew Leverton
Supreme Loser
January 1999
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zlib is more restrictive than Allegro, but only in stuff that doesn't matter. (Ie, don't abuse our generosity vs please don't abuse our generosity.) Allegro could take zlib and bundle it, but then Allegro's license would have be to be modified to be "Giftware, with some parts under the zlib license". |
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BAF
Member #2,981
December 2002
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I think that may be a good idea myself. |
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Evert
Member #794
November 2000
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As Elias said, I think this should be a supported or approved or bundled or gift wrapped or whatever addon, not part of the vanilla Allegro distribution. |
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Elias
Member #358
May 2000
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Yes.. maybe with 4.2.0, someone will create such a thing. A distribution which has zlib, libpng, loadpng, AllegroGL, glyphkeeper, jpgalleg, whatever else, all bundled together. The make process then also would build the examples and documentation of all the addons. But there still would be no need to move zlib into allegro's CVS repository.. everything would stay nicely modular (except the allegro core itself, which still is quite big -- |
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Richard Phipps
Member #1,632
November 2001
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Maybe there should be a stripped down Allegro core then since this will get pretty big in terms of file size. |
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Thomas Fjellstrom
Member #476
June 2000
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There will always be a vanila allegro distro. -- |
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It's what I release under.
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