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SnowyMouse / chimera

The update to Halo PC that never was
https://chimera.opencarnage.net
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Map compression/de-compression tool. #83

Open Aerocatia opened 2 years ago

Aerocatia commented 2 years ago

Since support for zstd compressed maps was removed from invader there should be a standalone tool provided here that can extract or compress these maps.

BinToss commented 2 years ago

I agree, somewhat. It would be more convenient if it could simply be thrown it out and never thought about again. However, because it existed in a stable release, it needs some sort of legacy support even if it is considered deprecated.

On the other hand, a CLI tool doesn't seem like a good fit in the Chimera project's repository. In other words, it's outside the apparent scope of the project.

If I may make a suggestion, I believe it would be better for it to exist as a standalone project in its own repository. Something along the lines of...

https://github.com/SnowyMouse/invader-legacy-zstd The Invader prefix is a placeholder to indicate its relation to other projects.