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| 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. |
