mpyq Support for more compression schemes

So far the development of the library has been totally dominated by Starcraft II replay format, and each file inside SC2 replays is compressed by DEFLATE. I need to investigate other kinds of MPQs and support other compression schemes as I encounter them.

May 23 '10 02:05 eagleflo

I should add an option to ignore files with unsupported compression types for now.

Sep 26 '11 20:09 eagleflo

Looks like LZMA and sparse are relevant wrt. Starcraft II and later games. Python 3.3 added native support for LZMA with a very familiar interface.

Jan 05 '14 22:01 eagleflo

Diablo 2 uses PKWare Data Compression Library's Implode (https://support.pkware.com/display/PKZIP/DCL). https://github.com/madler/zlib/blob/master/contrib/blast/blast.c contains an open source C implementation.

Sep 15 '19 03:09 eagleflo

W3 maps also use PKWare compression, I've ported StormLib's implementation to Python to support that one in my fork, see: https://github.com/TheSil/mpyq/commit/a1fc59d489e797781a610f732a715a149f5ef953

Mar 09 '20 23:03 TheSil

Hey there!

Thank you so much for doing this. I'd really like to upstream this. Could you make a pull request?

Mar 16 '20 11:03 eagleflo

Sure, although I am in a process of turning the compression into separate library (pypklib), will make the equest after that.

Mar 21 '20 13:03 TheSil

That would be lovely. Earlier when looking at this I found some throw-away implementations of explode / implode around but nothing from PyPI; yours would be the first implementation that I can just depend on normally.

Mar 22 '20 09:03 eagleflo