Xarchiver 0.5.0rc1 released

[Ali Abdallah]

Christoph Wickert wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, den 29.10.2008, 23:45 +0100 schrieb Giuseppe Torelli:
>   
>> On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 11:30 PM, Christoph Wickert
>> <christoph.wickert at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>     
>>> The main problem I see is that the websites are hardcoded in the app and
>>> cannot be changed.
>>> What if the content on the website is changed to something like
>>> extremist political statements, warez, child porn, or just something we
>>> can't subscribe to? What if a website gets compromised and turns into a
>>> source for Trojans and viruses? Once the package is released nether
>>> Guiseppe nor the maintainers from the distros can withdraw it.
>>>       
>> Well, if the menu items do not open the link in the system installed
>> browser it's responsibility of the user to write char after char the
>> url in the browser address bar.
>>     
>
> That's not the point I'm of my criticism. It's about that nobody can
> change an URL that is hardcoded in the source once the packages have
> been released.
>
> So what do you think about my idea of a dedicated donators page at
> xarchiver.xfce.org? By doing this you are always in control of the links
> and you could even put fancy banners there if you like.
>
>   
This sounds the perfect solution, a menu item with link to the 
donators/sponsors page.
you can always control/remove/add new people without changing anything 
concerning the code, it's a fair solution that shouldn't bother anybody.

Best Regards,
Ali.