Xarchiver branch

[Stephan Arts]

On 4/14/06, Benedikt Meurer <benedikt.meurer at unix-ag.uni-siegen.de> wrote:
> 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.).

Because then we still process the data synchronously and that makes
the GUI freeze with large archives. using a separate thread to parse
the output fixes it.

> Benedikt