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Have only one ZIM tool

Open kelson42 opened this issue 5 years ago • 1 comments

Following a comment on an other ticket https://github.com/openzim/zim-tools/issues/92#issuecomment-623152232, it has been proposed to make only one tool.

kelson42 avatar May 04 '20 16:05 kelson42

I'm not really in favour ot hat because:

  • It is against the principle one command -> on purpose
  • It will make a quite complex tool
  • This need a bit of work to merge everything without real/immediate value for the user
  • The idea of making a few of our ZIM tools in Python would then be impossible

That said we could use the approach of git which would be able to offer all the advantages: one visible command for the user but behind the scene multiple program which might even be done with different software stacks.

kelson42 avatar May 04 '20 17:05 kelson42