Re: RFC/RFS: jlhafrontend -- command-line lzh archiver written in Java

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>]

On Tue, 05 Sep 2006, Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) wrote:
> Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > On Mon, 04 Sep 2006, Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) wrote:
> >> jlhafrontend - command-line lzh archiver written in Java
> >>
> >> This package intends to become a free replacement of the "lha" package
> >> currently in Debian non-free section. It is command-line compatible to
> >> the "lha" package. Thus it works well with "file-roller", "ark",
> >> "clamav", "fkiss", and "gnomekiss".
> > 
> > Why it is named "frontend", if it is in fact the entire tool and not just a
> > wrapper to call lha, which is what "lhafrontend" implies?
> 
> "jlha" is a library written in Java. It can be found at
> http://homepage1.nifty.com/dangan/Content/Program/Java/jLHA/jLHA.html
> 
> "jlhafrontend" is just a wrapper to call "jlha" and provides
> command-line compatibility to the non-free "lha".

Well, the name is correct, then. I was not aware of jlha as a library.

> If the package/project name is bad, I can change it. Please give me some
> idea, thanks.

I don't know if it is "bad" as there is a lib jlha.  But my personal
preference would be to name the *package* either jlha-utils (or
libjlha-utils, maybe) or jlha-bin/libjlha-bin, and name the tool itself jlha
(i.e. you get the jlha library, and if you call the jlha java binary, you
get the jlha tool).

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