Re: [gap-discuss] Zipper: call for tests

[Sebastian Reitenbach]

On Saturday, April 21, 2012 08:04 CEST, Riccardo Mottola <address@hidden> 
wrote: 
 
> Hi,
> I made extensive bug fixes to Zipper. I almost even wonder how it was 
> used by several people!
> 
> I fixed bugs in the parser of the tar contents, I fixed bugs in how the 
> NSTask of the archiver gets expanded (It did not work at all on NetBSD 
> or Darwin... I wonder it worked on OpenBSD, perhaps it is less picky).
> 
> The BSD tar now is much better supported (at least, NetBSD's one, I 
> haven't yet tested the others).

It also works well with OpenBSD's tar with a .tar.gz file. Further tested .gz 
7z, .zip and .rar archives.
Don't have other archives around. How about putting some small
archives in a test subdirectory?

Sebastian

> 
> I then made a Mac port. Thus I found other incompatible things (luckily 
> the fixes for NeBSD fixed a very mysterious NSTaask exception I was 
> getting). I redid the modal runloop thing for the preferencs panel again...
> 
> Thus, I think it is much better now, but please test that I didn't break 
> and introduced regression bugs. For me it is now a release candidate. A 
> much better Zipper than before (of course it still has limitations, but 
> the goal was bugfixing first).
> 
> 
> Riccardo