Re: Feature and string break request

[Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org>]

Le lundi 17 mars 2008, à 09:57 +0100, Alexander Larsson a écrit :
> 
> On Sat, 2008-03-15 at 11:56 +0100, Vincent Untz wrote:
> 
> > For translators: the new string is "Archive Mounter".
> > 
> > Alex, your patch doesn't modify POTFILES.in :-)
> > 
> > I'm a bit mixed on the feature freeze break. It sounds harmless and
> > more of a good thing. But then it deprecates file-roller in some part
> > since it's not needed to read archives anymore... I need to think a bit
> > more about this, I guess.
> 
> Deprecates is a bit harsh. File roller is still what you want to use for
> things like creating an archive or adding a file to an archive. Or even
> extracting a whole archive to some place (via the extract archive menu
> item in nautilis). Mounting an archive is more when you want to browse
> into archives, similar to how you would use loopback mounting of ISO
> images. In fact i think the ISO image support is the most important part
> of the archive backend.

Looks like I didn't emphasizes enough the "in some part" part of my
sentence :-) It doesn't completely deprecate file-roller, sure, but it
deprecates it for quite some use cases. It could totally replace
file-roller in my personal case, eg.

What do other release team members think?

Vincent

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