Hi,
Those options exist for the sake of filtering out problems, for example…
a) it’s common to have incompatibilities (broken design) when you merge css or js files, hence we need an ignore file list to avoid certain files to be merged together. One of such is usually jquery or the select2 library.
b) likewise, it’s even more common to have issues with minification of js files, especially if those are already minified by default. For example, minifying the default jquery file include with wordpress, will cause errors because that one is already minified (but doesn’t include the .min.js extension… so we had to consider that in the plugin).
c) frequently you have issues when merging + minifying… but not with simple merging, hence the option to stop minification while keeping the files merged exist. This is quite handy with some woocommerce plugins that don’t like to be minified.
d) to not merge the files and keep minification requires me to rewrite significant parts of the code, but it’s something that is on my roadmap… so yes, eventually there will be an option to minify only, without merging. Just not a high priority issue right now, maybe a month or two perhaps.
Allright, I understand, thank you. Nothing mandatory btw, but will be usefull.
