On 29/12/15 20:24, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: > Hello, > > On 29 December 2015 at 20:03, Tomasz Buchert <tom...@debian.org> wrote: > > Package: wnpp > > Severity: wishlist > > Owner: Tomasz Buchert <tom...@debian.org> > > > > * Package name : opendht > > Version : v0.5 > > Upstream Author : 2014-2015 Savoir-Faire Linux Inc. > > * URL : https://github.com/savoirfairelinux/opendht > > * License : GPL3, MIT > > Programming Lang: C++ > > Description : lightweight C++11 Distributed Hash Table implementation > > > > A lightweight C++11 Distributed Hash Table implementation originally > > based on https://github.com/jech/dht by Juliusz Chroboczek. > > . > > * Light and fast C++11 Kademlia DHT library > > * Distributed shared key->value data-store > > * Clean and powerful distributed map API with storage > > of arbitrary binary values of up to 128 KB > > * Optional public key cryptography layer providing data signature > > and encryption (using GnuTLS) > > * IPv4 and IPv6 support > > > > Software in general is weightless, unless, of course one prints a > hardcopy book of it via a publisher (e.g. MIT Press) and takes it > across the border. ( > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy#Criminal_investigation > ) > > Yet pretty much every project on github claims to be "lightweight", "fast", > etc. > > Would it hurt to drop "lightweight", "light and fast" etc? Do these > adjectives have any meaning really?
Hi Dimitri, "lightweight" has a meaning: "of light weight" :) But, granted, it may be dropped since, as you said, the word is overused to the extent that became meaningless. Thanks, Tomasz > > -- > Regards, > > Dimitri. >
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