Re: [RFC] Merge v4l-utils. dvb-apps and mediactl to media-utils.git

[Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>]

Em 07-10-2011 03:05, Hans Verkuil escreveu:
> On Friday, October 07, 2011 04:07:38 Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
>> Em 06-10-2011 14:24, Mauro Carvalho Chehab escreveu:
>>> Em 06-10-2011 10:27, Mauro Carvalho Chehab escreveu:
>>>> Em 06-10-2011 09:23, Hans Verkuil escreveu:
>>>>> Currently we have three repositories containing libraries and utilities that
>>>>> are relevant to the media drivers:
>>>>>
>>>>> dvb-apps (http://linuxtv.org/hg/dvb-apps/)
>>>>> v4l-utils (http://git.linuxtv.org/v4l-utils.git)
>>>>> media-ctl (git://git.ideasonboard.org/media-ctl.git)
>>>>>
>>>>> It makes no sense to me to have three separate repositories, one still using
>>>>> mercurial and one that isn't even on linuxtv.org.
>>>>>
>>>>> I propose to combine them all to one media-utils.git repository. I think it
>>>>> makes a lot of sense to do this.
>>>>>
>>>>> After the switch the other repositories are frozen (with perhaps a README
>>>>> pointing to the new media-utils.git).
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm not sure if there are plans to make new stable releases of either of these
>>>>> repositories any time soon. If there are, then it might make sense to wait
>>>>> until that new stable release before merging.
>>>>>
>>>>> Comments?
>>>>
>>>> I like that idea. It helps to have the basic tools into one single repository,
>>>> and to properly distribute it.
>>
>> Ok, I found some time to do an experimental merge of the repositories. It is available
>> at:
>>
>> http://git.linuxtv.org/mchehab/media-utils.git
>>
>> For now, all dvb-apps stuff is on a separate directory. It makes sense to latter
>> re-organize the directories. Anyway, the configure script will allow disable
>> dvb-apps, v4l-utils and/or libv4l. The default is to have all enabled.
>>
>> One problem I noticed is that the dvb-apps are at version 1.1. So, if we're
>> releasing a new version, we'll need to jump from 0.9 to dvb-apps version + 1.
>> So, IMO, the first version with the merge should be version 1.2.
>>
>> Comments?
>
> Strange:
>
> $ git clone git://git.linuxtv.org/mchehab/media-utils.git
> Cloning into media-utils...
> fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
>
> I've no problem with other git trees.

Re-cloned and ran update-server-info. Please test again.

Thanks,
Mauro.
>
> Regards,
>
> 	Hans