Tag Descriptions

[blue-j]

One thing I like about the Exiv2 library is the inclusion of tag descriptions for each tag:  https://www.exiv2.org/tags.html

That library is C++ focused and supports far fewer fields than ExifTool, but perhaps these descriptions could collegially be imported into ExifTool somehow?  What a great thing, to be able to provide tooltips or help text per field explaining what they are.  Robin Mills and the community there went to some serious lengths to provide those descriptions; they certainly could be useful to people in the ExifTool user community, I believe.

- J

[Phil Harvey]

You're right, that would be useful.  But ExifTool documentation is part of the source code, and such lengthy descriptions would bloat the source code quite a bit, increasing the startup time.

- Phil

[blue-j]

We can port it to our application's intelligence without too much trouble.  We don't want to make ExifTool any slower to launch... ever!  If possible. - J