Squeeze, XArchiver, what to ship in 4.4.0 ? WAS: [Xfce4-commits] r24531 - xarchiver/trunk/src

[Stephan Arts]

On 1/20/07, Stephan Arts <psybsd at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/20/07, Stephan Arts <psybsd at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 1/19/07, Olivier Fourdan <fourdan at xfce.org> wrote:
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> > > Hi all,
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> > > Giuseppe Torelli wrote:
> > > > Author: colossus
> > > > Date: 2007-01-18 10:33:22 +0000 (Thu, 18 Jan 2007)
> > > > New Revision: 24531
> > > > Log:
> > > > Added experimental code in callbacks.c and zip.c to show the mime icon before the filename.
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> > > Can someone please clarify the status of Xarchiver/Squeeze for the
> > > release this weekend?
> > >
> > > Which one do we ship, what version?
> >
> > Squeeze is in an ALPHA stage, the first release is pretty much stable
> > but it is not nearly as mature as Xarchiver. Personally i would go for
> > Xarchiver, Squeeze will be released on the same day as Xfce, but it is
> > not yet good enough to ship with the official release.
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> On the other hand... Squeeze will do a better job integrating into the
> Xfce desktop.
>
> Perhaps some other devs can try them both out and decide which to ship?

Never mind. DO NOT ship Squeeze with 4.4, we can discuss this again
for 4.6. There are too many code-changes waiting. The application
still has some very nasty bugs and it would just give Xfce users a bad
idea about 4.4.

Stephan