Python script to convert old resource archives into new Bundle format

[Boudewijn Rempt]

Hi Ilya!

Cool! I'm wondering how hard it would be to use this to create bundles out 
of the resources we package as part of the build process... Loading a 
bundle is much faster than loading individual resources.

On Sun, 31 May 2015, Ilya Portnov wrote:

> Hello all.
>
> There are some number of brushes for Krita available in old-fashioned format, 
> as a zip file with "brushes" and "paintoppresets" directories. Managing these 
> brushes manually when having "brand new" resource manager seemed to be hmm.. 
> unelegant :) So I wrote a simple script that converts that archives into new 
> bundle 
> format. Github link:
> https://github.com/portnov/krita-bundler
>
> USAGE
>
> * Create a directory, say, ~/bundle.
> * Put 'brushes' and 'paintoppresets' directories from old resource archive to 
> that new directory.
> * Put also file called preview.png into the same directory.
> * Chdir to ~/bundle.
> * Run create-krita-bundle.py from console/terminal emulator.
> * It will ask you several questions about the bundle being created.
> * As a result, it will produce *.bundle file.
> * Import that file to Krita to test that it works as expected.
>
> There obviously can be bugs, some of them because bundle format is not well 
> documented and i had to reverse-engineer existing bundles :) Please fill free 
> to 
> report bugs here or via github issue tracker. Patches are very appreciated :)
> The script, i think, should be useful first of all for maintainers of 
> existing brushsets; but it can be also useful for end users.
>
> With best regards,
> Ilya Portnov.
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