OoO En cette fin de matinée radieuse du lundi 24 mars 2008, vers 11:00,
Justin B Rye <jbr@edlug.org.uk> disait:
>> libwhisker is a flexible, portable and contained Perl module
>> implementing fast and small replacements to the usual HTTP testing
>> functions, as available in LWP, URI, HTML::Parser, MIME::Base64, etc.
> "Contained" isn't the word you're looking for (it means "reticent,
> restrained"). Perhaps "compact"?
It is upstream wording. This means "no external dependencies". What
other word could be used?
> Isn't this libwhisker2, not libwhisker? Though come to that, what
> is it exactly that bears this name? The .pm is "LW2", the .deb is
> "libwhisker2-perl". It would be helpful if this was mentioned
> somewhere, perhaps as
> This package provides libwhisker2 (LW2), a flexible, portable
> and compact Perl module [...]
> I'm avoiding the sentence-initial lowercase "l", since it's not
> clear that it's the sort of name that's entitled to disobey the
> ordinary capitalisation rules. (Indeed, why isn't it LibWhisker2?)
Upstream call it libwhisker 2.x.
If I summarize your changes, I get (extra spaces are mine, they won't
get into the final version):
Description: Perl module geared for HTTP testing
This package provides libwhisker 2 (LW2), a flexible, portable and
compact Perl module implementing fast and small replacements to the
usual HTTP testing functions, as available in LWP, URI, HTML::Parser,
MIME::Base64, etc without any external dependency.
It supports:
- HTTP 0.9, 1.0, and 1.1;
- persistent connections (with keep-alives);
- proxying;
- anti-IDS features;
- SSL (through libnet-ssleay-perl);
- chunked encoding;
- basic and NTLM authentication.
I have completed the description with the "no dependency"
thing. However, this may be worthless to mention it in the description
of a Debian package.
Many thanks for the feedback.
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