Re: [ANNOUNCE] git tree repositories & libv4l

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On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 1:23 PM, Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 02/23/2010 10:01 AM, Hans Verkuil wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On 02/22/2010 11:54 PM, 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
>>>>
>>>
>>> Ok, so this will give me a local tree, how do I get this onto linuxtv.org
>>> ?
>>>
>>> Also I need someone to pull:
>>> http://linuxtv.org/hg/~hgoede/libv4l
>>>
>>> (this only contains libv4l commits)
>>>
>>> Into the:
>>> http://linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb
>>>
>>> Repository, I guess I can ask this directly to Douglas?
>>>
>>>> Thoughts?
>>>
>>> I've one question, I think we want to do tarbal releases
>>> from this new repo (just like I've been doing with libv4l for a while
>>> already), and then want distro's to pick up these releases, right ?
>>>
>>> Are we going to do separate tarbals for the lib and utils directories,
>>> or one combined tarbal. I personally vote for one combined tarbal.
>>>
>>> But this means we will be inflicting some pains on distro's because their
>>> libv4l packages will go away and be replaced by a new v4l-utils package.
>>
>> I would call it media-utils. A nice name and it reflects that it contains
>> both dvb and v4l utilities.
>>
>
> Well, the judge is still out on also adding the dvb utils to this git repo.
> I'm neutral on that issue, but I will need a co-maintainer for those bits
> if they end up in the new v4l-utils repo too.
>
> About the name, if the dvb utils get added and we want to reflect that, lets
> call it v4l-dvb-utils. media-utils is not a very descriptive name for
> v4l-dvb
> project outsiders.


What's the advantage in merging the dvb and v4l2 utils, other than to
make the download/clone bigger ?



Regards,
Manu
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