Squeeze and Xarchiver

[Alexandre Moreira]

2007/1/29, Auke Kok <sofar at foo-projects.org>:
> Jean-Philippe Guillemin wrote:
> > 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 ?
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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 ?
>
> nothing wrong with a fork once in a while.
>
> good reasons to fork were:
>
> * squeeze aims towards xfce
> * provide archive management layer support to thunar
> * xarchiver targets gtk+-2 only system
> * all developers agreed that this would be better for everyone
>
> both xarchiver and squeeze will likely exist longer, and possibly share some
> code, but in the short term both projects benefit more from the fork than if
> they would collaborate. Xarchiver can focus on stability and working on
> bare-necessity functionality. Sqeeuze can target the rapidly evolving
> thunar/xfce api.
>
> as for the user, you just have more choice, which is always good.

And for the developers, they both have tons of fun, which is always
there when you start anything from scratch :)

>
> Cheers,
>
> Auke
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