Xarchiver branch

[Stephan Arts]

On 4/13/06, Stephan Arts <psybsd at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a local copy of xarchiver that has the following changes with
> whats in svn-trunk.
>
> - libxarchiver uses Gobject derived objects
> - libxarchiver handles spawned processes in another way
>
> - support for anything else then gzip and tar has been removed for
> testing purposes.
>
> Work in progress:
> - libxarchiver will work with signals to notify the GUI it can update
> the treeview.
> (idea is to let the GUI respond while libxarchiver is busy, current
> version makes GUI hold)

My copy is also the first version incorporating threads to do this.
It is easier to test the threading-model if i only have 1 or 2 archive
types to maintain. But this would make it difficult for Giuseppe to
test the support stuff we already have.

> - New tree-model derived object, to make the treeview faster.
>
> At the moment i have a 86Kb diff, and i would like to commit.
> Especially to get some comments about the design. But when i commit
> that would mean we cannot test arj and 7zip support anymore.
>
> Is it ok if i branch the OO version of Xarchiver?
>
> Stephan.
>