Xarchiver 0.3.9svn: who wants to test it ?

[Stephan Arts]

On 6/22/06, jp <jp.guillemin at free.fr> wrote:
> Colossus wrote:
> > On 6/22/06, jp.guillemin at free.fr <jp.guillemin at free.fr> wrote:
> >
> >> I will, this WE.
> >>
> >
> > :) thank you,
> >
> Here are my test results :
>
> 1) compile cleanly with latest svn xfce-dev-tools : OK
>
> 2) install OK, desktop menu entry is there : OK
>
> 3) trying a drag&drop extract from tar.gz : failed, I get : "Invalid
> filename provided by XDS drag site."
>
> 4) xarchiver -a test.tgz : failed to create the archive, I get "Can't
> open archive test.tgz: No such file or directory"
>     and then a nice "Segmentation fault" (after closing the message box)
>
> 5) xarchiver -e archive.tgz : OK
>
> 6) xarchiver -d archive.tar.gz test.txt : failed : archive is destroyed
> (empty)
>
> 7) xarchiver -x folder archive.tar.gz : OK
>
> 8) opening a tar.gz archive : OK
>
> 9) opening a tar.bz2 archive : OK
>
> 10) drag and drop add to archive : always fails : "The format of this
> archive is not recognized !"
>
>
> A feature request :
>
> A new option, something like :
> -n, --new [file1]  [file2] [fileN] ...                           Prompt
> for the archive name to create, and add files in this new archive.
>
> ->> Would be interesting to be used as a Thunar custom command (btw :
> it's the only option that I would really use :)

Why would you want that? The only difference between this and add i
can think of is that you can let add complain if the archive does not
exist where new would not be so difficult and just creates it. Is this
what you mean?

> Cheers
>
> JP

Stephan