Re: [ANNOUNCE] git tree repositories & libv4l

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On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 4:41 AM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab
<mchehab@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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/


That's probably Michael Krufky (user: Jon2856) from what i guess, he
has been the one who has been making ground for propaganda's on the
wiki.


> 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.


Btw, I did spend time to review your code before it is pulled in. You
did not even provide a reply on my last mail on the subject, or did I
miss that reply of yours ?


Regards,
Manu
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