Hi Hans, On Thu, May 04, 2023 at 08:32:37AM +0200, Hans Verkuil wrote: > On 04/05/2023 08:25, Gregor Jasny wrote: > > On 21.03.23 22:21, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > >> Gregor Jasny <gjasny@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> escreveu: > >>> I'm happy to announce that v4l-utils 1.24.0 has been released. This will > >>> be the last version before the build system will be migrated from > >>> Autotools to Meson. > >> > >> I wouldn't mind if we would have a shorter release time for version > >> 1.26 - or maybe it is time to increase major, so version 2.0. > >> > >> As we are now using a new building system, it would be nice to have > >> a stable version frozen, with not much other changes, in order > >> to allow distros to opt either to use version 1.24 with autotools > >> or to migrate to the newest version, with meson, but not many other > >> changes. > >> > >> So, perhaps we should aim release a new version in 2 months or > >> so, once we have enough time to do cleanups if needed and having > >> media maintainers and developers familiar with the new way. > > > > It looks like the dust after the meson migration has been settled. > > When would be a good time for a new v4l-utils release? I'm available > > this weekend or the upcoming ones. > > > > Is there anything you'd like to land in the mainline branch prior to > > a new release? > > Actually, there is one thing I want to discuss. I maintain the edid-decode utility > (https://git.linuxtv.org/edid-decode.git/) and I have received several request for > 'a proper version number' and releasing it as a package. > > I have been wondering whether this utility shouldn't be moved to v4l-utils so it > is part of the v4l-utils release mechanism. > > Since V4L2 also deals with setting/getting EDIDs it is not unreasonable. > > Would there be any objections if I did that? If there are no objections, then it > would be nice to include this in a new release. No objection from me. It could be nice at some point to work on v4l-utils packaging to make it easier to split key utilities in different packages, but there's no urgency. -- Regards, Laurent Pinchart
