Xarchiver 0.5.0rc1 released

[Giuseppe Torelli]

On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 1:15 PM, Christoph Wickert
<christoph.wickert at googlemail.com> wrote:
> ... 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

The one quoted in the bug was a development version. It's expected by
such release to be unstable and so to crash often.
You don't know this Christoph?

> 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.

It doesn't crash on my system, I can't be aware of bugs which don't occur can I?

>> 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'.

IMO "fully developed" means that the developers are constantly working
at it, by adding new features or fixing the bugs that occurs on their
system.

> 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.

>From the way you're repling you are already flaming Christoph. If you
want stability, contribute to the code instead of speaking only, ok?

Bye,
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Colossus
Xarchiver, a Linux GTK+2 only archive manager - http://xarchiver.xfce.org