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On Thursday 22 December 2005 20:14, Drake Wyrm wrote: |
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> Query: Which would be more appropriate in this case? "jasper" for the |
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> library it pulls in as a depend, or "jpeg2k" for the functionality that |
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> library provides? There's nothing else in the tree (as far as I can |
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> tell) which provides JPEG-2000, but there could be. |
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It is imho a _problem_ when use flags are _unnecessarily_ named after the |
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library instead the provided functionality. When there are two libs doing the |
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same thing, a single use flag should suffice: Less use flags mean reduced |
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complexity for the user, who likely will understand what "jpeg2k" means, but |
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not "jasper". Which leads me to the next issue; Often you can read: |
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foo - enables support for $category/foo |
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Such a description is as good as none. To give a sample how it should be: |
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jpeg2k - Support for JPEG 2000, a wavelet-based image compression format. |
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Carsten |
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