Xarchiver branch

[Benedikt Meurer]

Stephan Arts 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.

Why do you want to use threads? The archive processes already run
asynchronously (tar, unrar, unzip, etc.).

Benedikt