[Maf] Maf 0.6.0 Beta testers

[Allister Beharry]

No prob, we who are about to beta test salute you. Sorry I couldn't help
you with the XPZip stuff (another New Year's resolution gone begging,)
but MAF definitely  needed it and as you mentioned it will solve a lot
of problems, including compatibility with Win98. But what on earth is
"Deer Park Alpha 1.1."? It sounds like some kind of weird sci-fi/big
game hunting FPS game.

Allister.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: maf-bounces at mozdev.org [mailto:maf-bounces at mozdev.org] 
> On Behalf Of Christopher Ottley
> Sent: Sunday, July 24, 2005 9:23 AM
> To: maf at mozdev.org
> Subject: [Maf] Maf 0.6.0 Beta testers
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> I know it's been a while since my last update and even my last eMail, 
> but I've been a bit busy with lots of different things. First off, a 
> local brokerage firm decided to hire me for a year to do analysis and 
> development for them so I have a little less time than I 
> usually do to 
> commit to my OSS projects. Some form of income is always good 
> though. ;).
>     Secondly, although the facility was there to use other 
> scripts and 
> archive apps, Zip was good enough for just about everyone, so 
> I decided 
> to make MAFF files Zip only. As part of my project plan for MAF, I 
> really really wanted to stop all the script insanity that was 
> going on 
> and use a nice XPCOM Zip writer component. Using the scripts 
> caused user 
> interface issues and triggered security apps warning about vbs 
> execution. Unfortunately, there was no Zip writer component in 
> Mozilla/Firefox (but there was a zip reader because there is a lot of 
> stuff in Jar files).
>     A project, XPZip, that mushes the Zlib library 
> (http://www.zlib.net/) and some zip creation code written by Gilles 
> Vollant (see minizip in the contrib section) into a scriptable XPCOM 
> component, was born.
>     You could probably guess thirdly by now. I've incorporated XPZip 
> into MAF 0.6.0 and I'm using the Zip reader component included in 
> Mozilla/Firefox. Because of limited testing I've done I am 
> considering 
> 0.6.0 a BETA and appealing to you guys to do some beta 
> testing before I 
> release 0.6.1. MAF 0.6.0 has been tested in Firefox 1.0.6 (Win32) and 
> Deer Park Alpha 1.1 (Linux). In case my c/c++ coding isn't 
> what it used 
> to be, please backup your existing MAF archives before modifying them 
> with MAF 0.6.0.
> 
> I'm not putting the download link 
> http://downloads.mozdev.org/maf/maf-0.6.0.xpi on the 
> installation page 
> because I don't want everyone installing it until I've 
> received reports 
> of how it's working in different environments (especially non-english 
> ones). I've created bug 11087 ( 
> http://mozdev.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=11087 ) that testers 
> can attach 
> their experiences to. Please report both good and bad ones. :).
> 
> I put 0.6.0 in CVS this earlier morning and it takes a while to 
> propagate, so as always, please be patient. :).
> 
> Regards,
> Christopher.
> 
> 
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