On 5/13/19 5:34 AM, [email protected] wrote: > tl;dr: If it can be done with 3rd party software, you should like it. > > Hi, sorry, I cannot solve your problem, since I do almost no metadata > editing. But I'd like to comment on one important misconception: > > Kneops (2019-May-13, excerpt): >> I really would like to be able to do this in one program (DT) > > This desire, voiced by many users and not limited to DT, has led the > IT world to bloated, unmaintainable and inflexible monolithic > applications, much pain and frustration. > > Building an application that does everything you need will lead to > feature creep [1] inevitably: Other people probably want other > features which must be added as well (unless you're special, e.g. the > maintainer or the sole paying customer). > > Applications implementing a certain feature are unlikely to be > flexible enough to hand this task off to an application which is > better at it. So if your does-all-application A also solves a minor > side task X, you won't be able to use another application B, which > specializes on X and solves it better. You're locked into using A > because the other things it does, you're bound to the crappy solution > A provides. > > The Unix Philosophy [2] and KISS Principle [3], while debatable in > their most extremist interpretations, lead a way out of this: Do not > add features to a program that could be easily handed of to an > external tool. > [...]
Stefan, I agree with your points in general, but I don't see adding fuller support for metadata in dt as a feature bloat. To me it looks like a rather basic and essential feature, part of the of good digital photography practice... I would be glad to be able to code what's needed, but unfortunate that's not likely anytime soon... -- Šarūnas Burdulis math.dartmouth.edu/~sarunas
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