From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:13683 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752399Ab1JGLye (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Oct 2011 07:54:34 -0400 Message-ID: <4E8EE878.1000702@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2011 08:54:32 -0300 From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Hans Verkuil CC: linux-media , Hans De Goede Subject: Re: [RFC] Merge v4l-utils. dvb-apps and mediactl to media-utils.git References: <201110061423.22064.hverkuil@xs4all.nl> <4E8DE450.7030302@redhat.com> <4E8E5EEA.80906@redhat.com> <201110070805.31054.hverkuil@xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <201110070805.31054.hverkuil@xs4all.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-media-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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