Re: [ANNOUNCE] git tree repositories & libv4l

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Brandon Philips wrote:
> On 00:26 Tue 23 Feb 2010, Hans Verkuil wrote:
>> On Monday 22 February 2010 23:54:26 Brandon Philips wrote:
>>> On 18:24 Sat 23 Jan 2010, Hans de Goede wrote:
>>>>> lib/
>>>>> 	libv4l1/
>>>>> 	libv4l2/
>>>>> 	libv4lconvert/
>>>>> utils/
>>>>> 	v4l2-dbg
>>>>> 	v4l2-ctl
>>>>> 	cx18-ctl
>>>>> 	ivtv-ctl
>>>>> contrib/
>>>>> 	test/
>>>>> 	everything else
>>>>>
>>>   git clone git://ifup.org/philips/create-v4l-utils.git
>>>   cd create-v4l-utils/
>>>   ./convert.sh 
>>>
>>> You should now have v4l-utils.git which should have this directory
>>> struture. If we need to move other things around let me know and I can
>>> tweak name-filter.sh
>>>
>>> Thoughts? Let me know how we should proceed with dropping v4l2-apps
>>> from v4l-dvb.
>>>
>>> Re: code style cleanup. I think we should do that once we drop
>>> v4l2-apps/ from v4l-dvb and make the new v4l-utils.git upstream.
>> Question: shouldn't we merge dvb-apps and v4l-utils? The alevtv tool was
>> merged into dvb-apps, but while that tool supports dvb, it also supports
>> v4l2. Just like we merged dvb and v4l in a single repository, so I think we
>> should also merge the tools to a media-utils repository.
>>
>> It remains a fact of life that dvb and v4l are connected and trying to
>> artificially keep them apart does not make much sense to me.
> 
> Easy to do but who should be the maintainer of the dvb things?
> 
> According to the wiki[1] these tools are without a maintainer. So, if
> no one cares about them enough to make releases why merge them and
> clutter up the git tree with dead code?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> 	Brandon
> 
> [1] http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/LinuxTV_dvb-apps

That's weird. I've recently added support for ISDB-T on it:
	http://linuxtv.org/hg/~mchehab/dvb-apps-isdbt2/

and we've got some comments at the mailing list. Btw, the patches
I added there also adds DVB-S2 support to szap/scan, but tests
are needed, since I don't have any satellite dish nowadays.

-- 

Cheers,
Mauro
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