Xarchiver 0.5.0rc1 released

[Christoph Wickert]

Am Mittwoch, den 29.10.2008, 15:18 +0100 schrieb 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?

Yes I know, but I had to update because the last stable release 0.4.6
had would never passed the review that is necessary to get into Fedora.
It had several issues with the handling of .a archives, possibility of
files being overwritten in race conditions due to predictable file names
etc. And IIRC you were the one who told me to use a version from svn
because you refused to fix these issues in a stable release.

> > 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.

Agreed, but the developers should also take care of bugs submitted by
others instead of closing them INVALID although they still exist.

BTW: What version do you want me to file bugs against now? What revision
are you accepting?

> > 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. 

Honestly I don't think so. Maybe my criticism may be harsh, but it is
not impertinent or insulting. I apologize for being harsh, but IMO your
reaction to my bug reports was harsh too. Anyway, I'll try to stick to
the facts now.

> If you
> want stability, contribute to the code instead of speaking only, ok?

This is not fair, I already submitted a couple of patches back in 2006.
Sorry I can't do more at the moment but I'm too busy.

Regards,
Christoph