I give up! You win, Ark, you win...

Last night I realised I cannot defeat Ark. Seriously, Ark is so full of bugs and hacks that I can no longer fix it. When I took over Ark because the former maintainer simply disappeared from the net without a trace, I read on the TODO file "this thing is in serious need of a total reengineering" and "hacks on top of hacks on top of hacks". I knew it was going to be tough, but I did not know how much...

So, last night, I launched the kapptemplate script and began writing KArchiver from scratch. KArchiver will replace Ark as KDE archive utility. I am getting way too many bug reports on Ark. Bugs that I cannot fix without rewriting large parts of the code, so I think coding something from scratch is the best option right now.

So, that's it. If you use Ark and find a bug, please report it anyway as I will fix what is simple, and if it's not a simple fix, at least it might give me some ideas for the new code. Also, please post in Ark your wishlists for KArchiver. If you don't know it already, the Right Place(tm) to report bugs and wishes is here.