[crossfire] Archetypes collection changes proposal

[Nicolas Weeger]

Hello.

I think my code works nicely now :) It's been running on invidious for some 
days, no crash as far as I can tell.



What I added as support:

- of course, ability to run the server with a simple "arch" directory, without 
any collect to do :)

- ability of the server to read .tar files with .png image files (only png for 
now because of loading routines using FILE* directly - will be changed 
ultimately)

- ability to create "packed" archetypes, treasures, faces, png, and such 
things. Again this is done by the server directly. When everything is packed 
in a single file per asset, loading is quite fast :)


I did not add gz support, I'm not sure it's worth it (we're talking about some 
MB of data only), but once .tar support is complete it shouldn't be too hard 
to add.


What I plan to change/fix:
- move "smoothface" stuff from .arc to .face files

- change the "image_info" file format (removing the index and using the prefix 
for fallback)

- probably add some extensions to various files, to not rely on the name only 
(artifacts, messages, attackmess, image_info, formulae notably)

- while I'm at it, I'll also remove the "race reset" functionality from the 
races file, it is not used at all - besides, what's the point since one can 
simply change the archetype directly?)

- also, when "packing" archetypes or treasures or ..., comments are not stored 
(as opposed to the current collect system). This may be fixed if I'm courageous 
enough ;)



So, should I just commit to trunk? :D


Best regards


Nicolas
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