From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:60360 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751998Ab0BWMWK (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Feb 2010 07:22:10 -0500 Message-ID: <4B83C860.6000108@infradead.org> Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 09:21:52 -0300 From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Manu Abraham CC: Hans de Goede , Hans Verkuil , Brandon Philips , Linux Media Mailing List , Douglas Landgraf Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] git tree repositories & libv4l References: <4B55445A.10300@infradead.org> <4B57B6E4.2070500@infradead.org> <20100121024605.GK4015@jenkins.home.ifup.org> <201001210834.28112.hverkuil@xs4all.nl> <4B5B30E4.7030909@redhat.com> <20100222225426.GC4013@jenkins.home.ifup.org> <4B839687.4090205@redhat.com> <4B839E80.8050607@redhat.com> <1a297b361002230138k20c38a03m2f149b18ea44ed96@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1a297b361002230138k20c38a03m2f149b18ea44ed96@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-media-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Manu Abraham wrote: > On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 1:23 PM, Hans de Goede 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 ? There aren't any big advantages on merging, nor there are big advantages on keeping them alone. Advantages to merge: - One single release control. Currently, only Hans de Goede is doing a good job with release names, on libv4l. By having everything into one place, all other v4l2-apps and dvb-apps will have a release name, making easier even for us when helping people with troubles (as we'll know for sure if they're using the latest version or a very old version; - One single tree for the user to download, for IR, DVB and V4L apps; - Distro packagers will have one single tarball to maintain. Disadvantages: - More people will need access to the same git master tree; - The tree will be bigger. -- Cheers, Mauro