icculus/physfs

A portable, flexible file i/o abstraction.

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	Have you seen https://icculus.org/physfs/ ? You could put everything inside a zip and that's it. on 35% Faster Than The Filesystem (2017)	0	Aug 19, 2019
	As sibling comments stated it's common in games. A well known open source VFS library is PhysicsFS¹, previously it was called PhysFS AFAIR. ¹ https://icculus.org/physfs/ on 35% Faster Than The Filesystem (2017)	0	Aug 18, 2019
	SuperTux also uses a filesystem abstraction library: https://icculus.org/physfs/ Fortunately it doesn't need to do networking, threading, or IPC; those are definitely a pain. Boost provides an abstraction layer, but it's a big dependency. on SuperTux v0.4.0 – first stable release since 2005	0	Dec 28, 2015
	PhysicsFS is pretty excellent if you need more of a traditional hierarchy layout. http://icculus.org/physfs/ on Why can't we all use standard libraries for commonly needed algorithms?	0	Feb 24, 2011

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PhysicsFS

PhysicsFS; a portable, flexible file i/o abstraction.

Homepage: https://icculus.org/physfs/
GitHub: https://github.com/icculus/physfs/
Documentation: https://wiki.icculus.org/PhysicsFS3/

PhysicsFS is open source under the zlib license. Please see LICENSE.txt for licensing information.

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