Bug#801051: ITP: golang-github-skratchdot-open-golang -- Abstraction to open URIs using a same object type
On Mon, 05 Oct 2015 14:34:55 -0300
Fernando Ike <fike@midstorm.org> wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Fernando Ike <fike@midstorm.org>
> X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,
> pkg-go-maintainers@lists.a lioth.debian.org
>
> * Package name: golang-github-skratchdot-open-golang
> Version: 0.0~git20150221.0.c874831-1
> Upstream Author: Jeff Switze <jeff@skratchdot.com>
> * URL: https://github.com/skratchdot/open-golang
> * License: Expat
The README.md says it's MIT, not Expat.
> Description: Abstraction to open URIs using a same object type
Please use "the same", not "a same". This form refers to a specific
object with the specific set of properties, so the definite article
is used.
Unfortunately the whole sentence makes little sense as a whole.
I would just snatch the description from the xdg-open's manual page
to produce this description:
| A library to open an URI in the user's preferred application
> Functions to use embedded in your programs to open a file,
> directory, or URI using the OS's default application for that object
> type. Optionally, it can specify an application to use.
> .
> This package provides a library to use abstraction open functions in
> Golang programs.
Language problems, again. Too many to discern and discuss individually
-- but please take no offence!
I'd rephrase the whole piece like this:
| This library provides a set of Go functions allowing to "open" a file,
| directory or URI using the user's preferred application (or an
| operating system-wide default) to handle objects of those particular
| types. Optionally, it's possible to directly specify the application
| to use for opening the resource.
Hope this helps.
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