Am Dienstag, 5. Juni 2007 03:00 schrieb CityK: > I'm not sure who is maintaining it (Andrew, Marcel, Christoph, Manu), > but I figured I'd provide a few suggestions that I think would help > further tidy up the dvb-apps package. > > 1) README file, topmost directory > > a) Change the comment "Various testing applications also live in test" to: > > Some misc. testing applications: > test/README - Provides an overview of the various small test/sample > programs residing in the test directory > > b) Remove the following text given that the include files are, er, no > longer included: > > "For convenience, dvb-apps contains a copy of the DVB API include > files as they are contained in the linuxtv-dvb-1.? release > and the 2.6.x Linux kernel." > > 2) Given the (historical and contextual) information on the zap > utilities recently provided by Manu & Johannes, can the util/zap and the > util/szap directories be combined into one (util/zap) ? > > If yes, then: > > a) a quick rewrite of the current util/szap/README file could elucidate > the contextual and historical info Manu & Johannes just provided --- > which, btw, goes an extremely along way in explaining (especially for > the "newbie") why there are so many zap variations > > b) the README file, in the topmost directory, should have the line > "util/zap - *Just* tunes a digital device - really intended for > developers" slightly modified to allude to the various zap tuning utils > contained within the package > > 3) lib/libdvbapi > > a) requires a README file which, at the very least, alludes to what the > current version of the api is .... either that or change the directory > name to indicate this (i.e. lib/libdvbapi2.0) > > b) the README file, in the topmost directory -- might want to do > likewise in regards to api version number in the line "lib/libdvbapi > - Interface library to digital TV devices." > > 4) util/scan vs util/dvbscan > > a) Like the zap utilities, this is surely another spot of confusion for > most unenlightened folks. What's the story here again ? (I say again, > because I know there has been some discussion (here and there) about > these two, but I forget when and where and what conclusions, if any, > were drawn). > > b) the util/scan/README file looks like it could really use an overhaul > ... especially given that, despite being in the "scan" directory, it > refers to "dvbscan" and "atscscan" apps 1. Thank you for bringing that up :) My critical questions were not conforming to "szap", but to "scan". In spite of that they were never answered. 2. All other alternative scan utils are not DVB-S compatible at all :( My questions were: Who takes care of those bugs, and: Is there a TODO list in which those bugs are at least mentioned? Cheers > > c) the README file, in the topmost directory, should have some sort of > reference as to what distinguishes the two (scan vs. dvbscan) > > d) like the question regarding the zap utils, can the scan utils not be > merged into a single directory? > > Cheers > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > linux-dvb mailing list > linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
