Xarchiver 0.5.0rc1 released

[Christoph Wickert]

Am Mittwoch, den 29.10.2008, 08:04 +0100 schrieb Giuseppe Torelli:
> On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 11:19 PM, Christoph Wickert
> <christoph.wickert at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 
> > I also have an open bug against Xarchiver 0.4.9 from svn, please look at
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=467619
> 
> I saw it but that version is quite old. I fixed that bug in later
> development version.

... but unfortunately introduced many new bugs when you implemented the
tabs. I already downgraded XA in Fedora once because of
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=230154 
and I don't want to do this again. I will update the package as soon as
0.5.0 becomes stable, but at the moment IMHO there is no usable version:
r28502 is crashing all the time and r27962 that you recommend does not
crash, but it does not extract files ether and instead displays an error
message.

> Also Xarchiver is FULLY developed, 

IMO 'fully developed' means that there is a stable release where all the
features work as expected. Also with annoyances like bug 4535 I would
not call an app 'fully developed'.

> I would appreciate if you could
> possibly update the comments in that bug according to the new features
> of the 0.5. Xarchiver has the same features of File-Roller and even
> more, read the ability to handle the comments in the archive (CTRL+S
> in Xarchiver window), the ability to extract the archive in one shot
> (CTRL+M) and the ability to dump the whole archive content as HTML or
> TXT file (menu Archive->List as).

I'd appreciate if you focus on stability instead of new features. I can
send more backtraces and bugs of both r27962 and latest svn, but I first
want to wait if your are going to close my reports INVALID again.

Please don't take this as a flame. I see much has been done in svn
lately, but as long as XA is crashing all the time I have no other
option but to stick with the old version in Fedora.

Regards,
Christoph