Re: Testers wanted for MPDCon and Zipper

[Germán Arias]

On 2012-02-17 14:26:53 -0600 "Sebastian Reitenbach" 
<sebastia@l00-bugdead-prods.de> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> GAP is proud to announce its two new applications in its collection: 
> MPDCon 
> and Zipper.
> OK, they are not new, but their original authors stopped working on 
> them long 
> years ago, but after contacting them,
> they are happy with us giving them a new home on GAP, and continuing 
> development.
>
> MPDCon is a Music Player Daemon client, for more information, and the 
> changes 
> that happend on GAP in the
> last couple of days, take a look here:
> http://gap.nongnu.org/mpdcon/index.html
>
> Zipper is a tool for inspecting and extracting the contents of 
> compressed 
> archives, for more information, and the changed that happend on GAP 
> in the 
> last couple of days take a look here:
> http://gap.nongnu.org/zipper/index.html
> The support for BSD tar is known to be broken, so you need GNU tar, 
> and the 
> default open application (View menu entry) is known to not to work, 
> we'll 
> probably keep a solution for that for a next release.
> Interesting here is whether it works with all the different versions 
> of the 
> command line (un)archivers out there.

I'm testing with current gnustep in SVN. With Zipper I have these
problems:

* If you open the preferences panel and then close it, Zipper crash.
* I can't open rar archives. I get the error:

  NSRangeException: Range location + length too grat.