Xarchiver branch

[Stephan Arts]

On 4/13/06, Stephan Arts <psybsd at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
> >
>
I just spoke to Giuseppe, we agreed i will commit to xarchiver/trunk.
All changes i made should end up in release version anyway.

Stephan