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

Stephan Arts psybsd at gmail.com
Sat Jan 20 15:37:22 CET 2007


On 1/20/07, Benedikt Meurer <benedikt.meurer at unix-ag.uni-siegen.de> wrote:
> Stephan Arts 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.
> >>>
> >>> 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.
> >
> > 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?
>
> No, Xarchiver was part of the RCs, while Squeeze had no release at all.
> Either we ship Xarchiver or we ship no archive manager at all.

Ok, i will wait with the release of Squeeze 0.1.0 until after Xfce
4.4.0, to make sure there is no confusion. I need to implement some
major changes to libsqueeze anyway.

Stephan



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