Announcing Sofud 0.2 (no there's never been version 0.1)

http://sofu.sourceforge.net/

Sofud is a parser library for the file format Sofu (don't confuse the names ;) ).

Sofu has been created (by me) to allow reading and storing data, mainly for game type applications, in a simple and painless way. I believe for games it's a viable, more simple alternative to XML.

To find out what Sofu is all about, you can find a tutorial at the above web page.

Please tell me what you think :)

-Sebastian

Sebastian Beschke wrote:

> Sofu has been created (by me) to allow reading and storing data, mainly for game type applications, in a simple and painless way. I believe for games it's a viable, more simple alternative to XML.

Looks a whole lot like the old .plist format (now converted to XML) ?
It was used by NeXTSTEP to store various settings, "property list".

--anders

Anders F Björklund wrote:
> Looks a whole lot like the old .plist format (now converted to XML) ?
> It was used by NeXTSTEP to store various settings, "property list".

Dunno, I've never heard of it. Could you post an example? Maybe I could learn from it :)
> 
> --anders

-Sebastian

Sebastian Beschke wrote:

>> Looks a whole lot like the old .plist format (now converted to XML) ?
>> It was used by NeXTSTEP to store various settings, "property list".
> 
> Dunno, I've never heard of it. Could you post an example? Maybe I could learn from it :)

Googled up some example of the old-style .plist file format:
http://www.stone.com/The_Cocoa_Files/Legacy_File_Formats.html

--anders

In article <cpcrnq$28bn$1@digitaldaemon.com>, Sebastian Beschke says...
>
>Announcing Sofud 0.2 (no there's never been version 0.1)
>
>http://sofu.sourceforge.net/
>
>Sofud is a parser library for the file format Sofu (don't confuse the names ;) ).
>
>Sofu has been created (by me) to allow reading and storing data, mainly for game type applications, in a simple and painless way. I believe for games it's a viable, more simple alternative to XML.
>
>To find out what Sofu is all about, you can find a tutorial at the above web page.
>
>Please tell me what you think :)
>
>-Sebastian

Sebastian: I've downloaded Sofud-0.2.zip, but when I try to open it in WinZip v9.0 I get a invalid zip format error. And even with IZArc it complains as well...is this file a Linux only file? Shouldn't also work for MS Windows (XP)?

David L.

P.S. I downloaded it three times (hey it's only 12Kb), each time from a different server location, but the same result each time.

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In article <cpcrnq$28bn$1@digitaldaemon.com>, Sebastian Beschke says...
>
>Announcing Sofud 0.2 (no there's never been version 0.1)
>
>http://sofu.sourceforge.net/

Very nice!

You might want to check out (for ideas, or comparison)
www.yaml.org

georg

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David L. Davis wrote:
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> Sebastian: I've downloaded Sofud-0.2.zip, but when I try to open it in WinZip
> v9.0 I get a invalid zip format error. And even with IZArc it complains as
> well...is this file a Linux only file? Shouldn't also work for MS Windows (XP)?
> 

Actually, it's been created under Windows XP ;)

It seems it wasn't uploaded correctly, but it should work now. I apologize ^^

Also sorry for the late reply - I went on vacation right after the release ;)

> David L.
> 
-Sebastian

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That's nice to hear :)

If you find any bugs, please be sure to report them to me. It's not *that* excessively tested (which will change this weekend as I'm actually using it to make a game :) )

-Sebastian

Sebastian Beschke wrote:

 If you find any bugs, please be sure to report them to me. It's not
> *that* excessively tested (which will change this weekend as I'm actually using it to make a game :) )

Can't test it with GDC since it uses EndianStream from DMD 0.107,
and GDC is currently only up to features from DMD version 0.102 :(

You might want to list DMD 0.107 and Scons as Sofud requirements ?
But the zip file works this time :-) (with Windows/Linux binaries)

--anders