PhysicsFS. Can we get rid of this library?

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PhysicsFS. Can we get rid of this library?

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PhysicsFS. Can we get rid of this library?
I do not quite understand the need to use this library. It is enough to use only zlib
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Re: PhysicsFS. Can we get rid of this library?

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Unlikely, as it's used for cross-platform file / path handling support, in addition to zip support.

(How WZ constructs search paths is worth a separate discussion, though.)
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zlib-ng may be worth a look jfyi

https://github.com/zlib-ng/zlib-ng
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