[ scummvm-Feature Requests-766468 ] Links to resource files.

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Feature Requests item #766468, was opened at 2003-07-05 21:39
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Category: None
Group: None
>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Rejected
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Marek Roth (logicdeluxe)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Links to resource files.

Initial Comment:
This is ment as a more flexible alternative to the
techniques suggested in feature request 650677.
So what about an OS independed link format in ScummVM?
Say if ScummVM could not find a file called track17.ogg
it could look for a file called track17.ogg.link as well.
That link file then would have specified a path (which
could be absolute or relative) to the file ScummVM
actually searched for in just plain ASCII text.

The whole use of it would be of course avoiding storing
equally files several times when using a game in
several languages.

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>Comment By: Max Horn (fingolfin)
Date: 2003-07-17 02:19

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As deledrius says, we are not going to add a filthy kludge like this 
to work around a deficency in the OS.

We *might* be considering allowing a secondary path in the 
options for a game for 'shared' resources. I modified FR #650677 
accordingly.

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Comment By: Joseph Davies (deledrius)
Date: 2003-07-09 04:47

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Unfortunately Windows does not have any true equivalent to 
symlinks.  Although it would be nice if ScummVM could 
support something like this under Windows, it seems out of 
the scope of the project to add features the OS.  

Perhaps ScummVM could allow a resource directory for each 
game, as it currently does with savegames.  Not a perfect 
solution, but at least somewhat flexible.

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Comment By: Jonathan Gray (khalek)
Date: 2003-07-06 02:29

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this sounds like a dirty kludge

I assume your filesystem doesn't support symlinks?

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