Package libphysfs: Information

    Source package: libphysfs
    Version: 2.0.2-alt1.1
    Build time:  Jul 12, 2012, 07:53 AM
    Category: System/Libraries
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    License: zlib license
    Summary: PhysicsFS file abstraction layer for games
    Description: 
    PhysicsFS is a library to provide abstract access to various archives.
    It is intended for use in video games, and the design was somewhat inspired
    by Quake 3's file subsystem. The programmer defines a "write directory" on
    the physical filesystem. No file writing done through the PhysicsFS API can
    leave that write directory, for security. For example, an embedded scripting
    language cannot write outside of this path if it uses PhysFS for all of its
    I/O, which means that untrusted scripts can run more safely. Symbolic links
    can be disabled as well, for added safety. For file reading, the programmer
    lists directories and archives that form a "search path". Once the search
    path is defined, it becomes a single, transparent hierarchical filesystem.
    This makes for easy access to ZIP files in the same way as you access a file
    directly on the disk, and it makes it easy to ship a new archive that will
    override a previous archive on a per-file basis. Finally, PhysicsFS gives
    you platform-abstracted means to determine if CD-ROMs are available, the
    user's home directory, where in the real filesystem your program is running,
    etc.

    List of rpms provided by this srpm:
    libphysfs (x86_64, i586)
    libphysfs-debuginfo (x86_64, i586)
    libphysfs-devel (x86_64, i586)
    libphysfs-devel-debuginfo (x86_64, i586)


    List of contributors:
    Eugeny A. Rostovtsev
    George V. Kouryachy
    Igor Zubkov
    qa-robot
    dfo

    ACL:
    George V. Kouryachy
    @everybody

      1. libncurses-devel
      2. doxygen
      3. gcc-c++
      4. libreadline-devel
      5. cmake
      6. zlib-devel

    Last changed


    July 12, 2012 Eugeny A. Rostovtsev 2.0.2-alt1.1
    - Fixed build
    Feb. 22, 2011 George V. Kouryachy 2.0.2-alt1
    - Autobuild version bump to 2.0.2
    Sept. 30, 2010 George V. Kouryachy 2.0.1-alt1
    - Autobuild version bump to 2.0.1
    - (Closes: #10289, #19309)