Re: [Ann] Zipper 0.3

[Dirk Olmes]

On 2004-01-20 19:08:59 +0100 Chris B. Vetter <chrisv@web4inc.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 10:37:17 +0100 (MET)
> "Dirk Olmes" <dirk@xanthippe.ping.de> wrote:
> [...]
> > > - The first time I opened an archive, Zipper rightly tell me that I
> > > didn't had set the paths for tar/unzip/rar, and displayed the
> > > preferences panel. But the problem is that it tried anyway to do
> > > something, and thus crashed because tar was still unset.
> > This will be adressed in the next version correctly. I plan to
> > generate a plist with the paths upon 'make install' and pick it up
> > when the app starts.
> [...]
>
> The attached file contains a directory DIFF/ with 3 diffs and a category
> to NSFileManager.
>
> The category adds -locateExecutable: that scans PATH for the specified
> executable and returns the path to it.

Thanks a lot. I've refactored Zipper a lot so the patch didn't apply anymore. 
However, I like the NSFileManager category and included it in Zipper's strategy 
to look for unarchivers now. I've also improved the handling of missing 
archivers at startup so that crashes caused by this effect won't happen anymore.

Watch out for a new release shortly,

-dirk

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