Squeeze and Xarchiver

[Erik Harrison]

On 1/29/07, Jean-Philippe Guillemin <jp.guillemin at free.fr> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Don't get me wrong, I'm just wondering why two developers from the same
> meta-project (let's call XFCE like this) are working on independent
> implementations of an archive manager ?
>

This has been hashed out on the list in some detail, albeit without
much technical coverage.

See the mailing list for the history.

> It seems strange, do you really disagree about the whole design ?
>
> As far as I know, Giuseppe's Xarchiver does the job, why not working
> together to improve Xarchiver instead of reinventing the wheel. Nothing
> bad about forking/reinventing in the general case : there are many Linux
> distributions with same goals, and challenging is usually a source of
> improvements - it just seems strange within the same meta-project.

In a sense, they AREN'T part of the same meta project. Instead they
are under the larger foo-projects umbrella, which includes Xfce, Lunar
Linux, the Perl file manager Filer, and on and on.
>
> Imho, Squeeze will probably be better than Xarchiver (design errors
> won't be reproduced, shared code will be improved, ...) , or it won't
> last , so why not merging efforts ?

The shortest version: Xarchiver is a desktop independent tool, Squeeze
is Xfce specific.

There are internal differences, as well.

>
> JP
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Xfce4-dev mailing list
> Xfce4-dev at xfce.org
> http://foo-projects.org/mailman/listinfo/xfce4-dev
>


-- 
Erik

<@kazin> why does php have 'echo' and 'print'?  Do they do different things?
<Bluefoxicy> kazin:  echo prints in a big empty room