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NEWS
Sun, 20 Jan 2008 13:39:04 -0500
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[svn] Add NEWS, and other documentation updates.
| 56 | 1 | Changes in dtrx |
| 2 | =============== | |
| 3 | ||
| 4 | Version 6.0 | |
| 5 | ----------- | |
| 6 | ||
| 7 | New features | |
| 8 | ~~~~~~~~~~~~ | |
| 9 | ||
| 10 | * When you specify -v at the command line, dtrx will display the files it | |
| 11 | extracts, much like tar. | |
| 12 | ||
| 13 | * When dtrx prompts you about how to handle recursive archives, you now | |
| 14 | have the option of listing what those archives before making a decision. | |
| 15 | ||
| 16 | * dtrx will now provide more information about why a particular extraction | |
| 17 | attempt failed. It will show you error messages from all the attempts | |
| 18 | it made, rather than only the last error it got. It will also detect | |
| 19 | and warn you when one of the underlying extraction tools, like | |
| 20 | cabextract, cannot be found. | |
| 21 | ||
| 22 | * dtrx does a better job of cleaning up after itself. It wouldn't always | |
| 23 | clean up temporary files after certain errors; that has been fixed. It | |
| 24 | also catches SIGINT and SIGTERM and cleans up before finishing | |
| 25 | execution. | |
| 26 | ||
| 27 | Bug fixes | |
| 28 | ~~~~~~~~~ | |
| 29 | ||
| 30 | * Version 5.0 introduced a regression such that dtrx would not offer to | |
| 31 | extract recursive archives that were hidden under subdirectories. | |
| 32 | Version 6.0 fixes that. | |
| 33 | ||
| 34 | * dtrx would not properly extract recursive archives when the original | |
| 35 | archive contained a single directory. This has been fixed. | |
| 36 | ||
| 37 | Version 5.1 | |
| 38 | ----------- | |
| 39 | ||
| 40 | Bug fixes | |
| 41 | ~~~~~~~~~ | |
| 42 | ||
| 43 | * Version 5.0 did not work with Python 2.3; it used a new language | |
| 44 | feature. This release fixes that. | |
| 45 | ||
| 46 | Version 5.0 | |
| 47 | ----------- | |
| 48 | ||
| 49 | New features | |
| 50 | ~~~~~~~~~~~~ | |
| 51 | ||
| 52 | * dtrx can now extract Ruby gems, 7z archives, and Microsoft Cabinet | |
| 53 | archives. It can also handle files compressed with lzma, and extract | |
| 54 | the metadata from Debian packages and Ruby gems. | |
| 55 | ||
| 56 | * dtrx will now use several strategies to try to figure out what kind of | |
| 57 | file you have, and extract it accordingly. If one doesn't work, it'll | |
| 58 | try something else if it can. | |
| 59 | ||
| 60 | * dtrx now displays more helpful errors when things go wrong. | |
| 61 | ||
| 62 | * Previous versions of dtrx would look at what files were included in an | |
| 63 | archive, and then make a decision about how to extract it. Now, it | |
| 64 | always extracts files to a temporary directory, and figures out what to | |
| 65 | do with that directory afterward. This should be slightly faster and | |
| 66 | nicer to the system. | |
| 67 | ||
| 68 | Version 4.0 | |
| 69 | ----------- | |
| 70 | ||
| 71 | New features | |
| 72 | ~~~~~~~~~~~~ | |
| 73 | ||
| 74 | * dtrx is now interactive. If the archive only contains one item, or | |
| 75 | contains other archives, dtrx will ask you how you would like to handle | |
| 76 | it. You can turn these questions off the the -n option. | |
| 77 | ||
| 78 | * There is a new -l option, which simply lists the archive's contents | |
| 79 | rather than extracting them. |
