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

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

[Hans Verkuil]

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?

Regards,

	Hans

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

[Mauro Carvalho Chehab]

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.

I think through, that we should work to have an smart configure script that
would allow enabling/disabling the several components of the utils, like the
--enable/--disable approach used by autoconf scripts:
	--enable-libv4l
	--enable-dvb
	--enable-ir
	--enable-v4l
	--enable-mc
	...

Of course, using "--disable-libv4l" would mean that libv4l-aware utils would
be statically linked with the current libv4l libraries.

This would help distributions to migrate to it, as they can keep having separate
packages for each component for the existing stable distros, while merging
into a single source package for future distros.

Regards,
Mauro

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

[Mauro Carvalho Chehab]

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.
>
> I think through, that we should work to have an smart configure script that
> would allow enabling/disabling the several components of the utils, like the
> --enable/--disable approach used by autoconf scripts:
> --enable-libv4l
> --enable-dvb
> --enable-ir
> --enable-v4l
> --enable-mc
> ...
>
> Of course, using "--disable-libv4l" would mean that libv4l-aware utils would
> be statically linked with the current libv4l libraries.
>
> This would help distributions to migrate to it, as they can keep having separate
> packages for each component for the existing stable distros, while merging
> into a single source package for future distros.

A patch for the above ended by being simple to add. For now, I've just
added two options, to allow disabling dynamic libv4l compilation/install
and to allow disabling v4l-utils. It is not hard to add more flags there
to allow selecting other things.

-

Add support to disable libv4l and/or v4l-utils

Add some autogen magic to allow disabling the compilation of
v4l-utils or libv4l.

If libv4l is disabled but v4l-utils is enabled, it will still
build libv4l statically, and will linkedit the v4l-utils against
the static libraries.

This way distributions can ship v4l-utils on a separate package
from libv4l, and even having things like providing a v4l-utils
based on a different version of libv4l.

This changeset also opens space to add more libraries and other
packages, as the first step to turn it into a media-utils tree.

While here, adds a v4l-utils.spec rpm file, as found on Fedora.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>

diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 1f62182..2b7d617 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -4,3 +4,7 @@
  *.so.0
  *.pc
  *.a
+config.log
+config.status
+Makefile
+configure
diff --git a/Make.rules b/Make.rules
index 13d8464..759c75b 100644
--- a/Make.rules
+++ b/Make.rules
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-V4L_UTILS_VERSION=0.9.0-test
-
  # These ones can be overriden from the cmdline
  
  CFLAGS := -g -O1
@@ -17,7 +15,7 @@ MANDIR = $(PREFIX)/share/man
  
  # Note the -I../.. this assumes all sources live in a 2 level dir hierarchy!
  override CPPFLAGS += -I../../include -I../../lib/include -D_GNU_SOURCE -DV4L_UTILS_VERSION='"$(V4L_UTILS_VERSION)"'
-override LDFLAGS += -L../../lib/libv4l1 -L../../lib/libv4l2 -L../../lib/libv4lconvert
+override LDFLAGS += -L../../lib/libv4l1 -L../../lib/libv4l2 -L../../lib/libv4lconvert -ldl -ljpeg
  
  # And last various rules
  
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
deleted file mode 100644
index fa0cb05..0000000
--- a/Makefile
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,37 +0,0 @@
-all install:
-	$(MAKE) -C lib $@
-	$(MAKE) -C utils $@
-
-sync-with-kernel:
-	@if [ ! -f $(KERNEL_DIR)/include/linux/videodev2.h -o \
-	      ! -f $(KERNEL_DIR)/include/linux/ivtv.h -o \
-	      ! -f $(KERNEL_DIR)/include/media/v4l2-chip-ident.h ]; then \
-	  echo "Error you must set KERNEL_DIR to point to an extracted kernel source dir"; \
-	  exit 1; \
-	fi
-	cp -a $(KERNEL_DIR)/include/linux/videodev2.h include/linux
-	cp -a $(KERNEL_DIR)/include/linux/ivtv.h include/linux
-	cp -a $(KERNEL_DIR)/include/media/v4l2-chip-ident.h include/media
-	$(MAKE) -C utils $@
-
-clean::
-	rm -f include/*/*~
-	$(MAKE) -C lib $@
-	$(MAKE) -C utils $@
-
-tag:
-	@git tag -a -m "Tag as v4l-utils-$(V4L_UTILS_VERSION)" v4l-utils-$(V4L_UTILS_VERSION)
-	@echo "Tagged as v4l-utils-$(V4L_UTILS_VERSION)"
-
-archive-no-tag:
-	@git archive --format=tar --prefix=v4l-utils-$(V4L_UTILS_VERSION)/ v4l-utils-$(V4L_UTILS_VERSION) > v4l-utils-$(V4L_UTILS_VERSION).tar
-	@bzip2 -f v4l-utils-$(V4L_UTILS_VERSION).tar
-
-archive: clean tag archive-no-tag
-
-export: clean
-	tar --transform s/^\./v4l-utils-$(V4L_UTILS_VERSION)/g \
-		--exclude=.git -jcvf \
-		/tmp/v4l-utils-$(V4L_UTILS_VERSION).tar.bz2 .
-
-include Make.rules
diff --git a/Makefile.in b/Makefile.in
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d38f9e7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Makefile.in
@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+CC			= @CC@
+CXX			= @CXX@
+V4L_UTILS_VERSION	= @V4L_UTILS_VERSION@
+CFLAGS			= @CFLAGS@
+WITH_LIBV4		= @WITH_LIBV4L@
+WITH_V4LUTILS		= @WITH_V4LUTILS@
+
+LIBV4L_ARGS=
+ifeq ($(WITH_LIBV4L),no)
+ifeq ($(WITH_V4LUTILS),yes)
+	LIBV4L_ARGS="LINKTYPE=static"
+endif
+endif
+
+all:
+  ifeq ($(WITH_LIBV4L),yes)
+	echo with Libv4l $(LIBV4L_ARGS)
+	$(MAKE) -C lib $(LIBV4L_ARGS) $@
+  else ifeq ($(WITH_V4LUTILS),yes)
+	echo with Libv4l static
+	$(MAKE) -C lib $(LIBV4L_ARGS) $@
+  endif
+  ifeq ($(WITH_V4LUTILS),yes)
+	$(MAKE) -C utils $(LIBV4L_ARGS) $@
+  endif
+
+install:
+  ifeq ($(WITH_LIBV4L),yes)
+	$(MAKE) -C lib $@
+  endif
+  ifeq ($(WITH_V4LUTILS),yes)
+	$(MAKE) -C utils $@
+  endif
+
+sync-with-kernel:
+	@if [ ! -f $(KERNEL_DIR)/include/linux/videodev2.h -o \
+	      ! -f $(KERNEL_DIR)/include/linux/ivtv.h -o \
+	      ! -f $(KERNEL_DIR)/include/media/v4l2-chip-ident.h ]; then \
+	  echo "Error you must set KERNEL_DIR to point to an extracted kernel source dir"; \
+	  exit 1; \
+	fi
+	cp -a $(KERNEL_DIR)/include/linux/videodev2.h include/linux
+	cp -a $(KERNEL_DIR)/include/linux/ivtv.h include/linux
+	cp -a $(KERNEL_DIR)/include/media/v4l2-chip-ident.h include/media
+	$(MAKE) -C utils $@
+
+clean::
+	rm -f include/*/*~
+	$(MAKE) -C lib $@
+	$(MAKE) -C utils $@
+
+tag:
+	@git tag -a -m "Tag as v4l-utils-$(V4L_UTILS_VERSION)" v4l-utils-$(V4L_UTILS_VERSION)
+	@echo "Tagged as v4l-utils-$(V4L_UTILS_VERSION)"
+
+archive-no-tag:
+	@git archive --format=tar --prefix=v4l-utils-$(V4L_UTILS_VERSION)/ v4l-utils-$(V4L_UTILS_VERSION) > v4l-utils-$(V4L_UTILS_VERSION).tar
+	@bzip2 -f v4l-utils-$(V4L_UTILS_VERSION).tar
+
+archive: clean tag archive-no-tag
+
+export: clean
+	tar --transform s/^\./v4l-utils-$(V4L_UTILS_VERSION)/g \
+		--exclude=.git -jcvf \
+		/tmp/v4l-utils-$(V4L_UTILS_VERSION).tar.bz2 .
+
+include Make.rules
diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0f9a058
--- /dev/null
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+AC_INIT(v4l-utils.spec.in)
+
+V4L_UTILS_VERSION=0.9.0-test
+
+dnl ---------------------------------------------------------------------
+dnl Checks for programs.
+AC_PROG_CC
+AC_PROG_CXX
+AC_LANG_C
+AC_PROG_MAKE_SET
+AC_HEADER_STDC
+
+dnl ---------------------------------------------------------------------
+dnl Options
+
+AC_ARG_ENABLE(libv4l,
+  [  --disable-libv4l        disable dynamic libv4l compilation],
+  [case "${enableval}" in
+     yes | no ) WITH_LIBV4L="${enableval}" ;;
+     *) AC_MSG_ERROR(bad value ${enableval} for --disable-ctemplate) ;;
+   esac],
+  [WITH_LIBV4L="yes"]
+)
+
+AC_ARG_ENABLE(v4l-utils,
+  [  --disable-v4l-utils     disable v4l-utils compilation],
+  [case "${enableval}" in
+     yes | no ) WITH_V4LUTILS="${enableval}" ;;
+     *) AC_MSG_ERROR(bad value ${enableval} for --disable-ctemplate) ;;
+   esac],
+  [WITH_V4LUTILS="yes"]
+)
+
+dnl ---------------------------------------------------------------------
+dnl Substitute vars
+AC_SUBST(V4L_UTILS_VERSION)
+AC_SUBST(WITH_LIBV4L)
+AC_SUBST(WITH_V4LUTILS)
+
+dnl ---------------------------------------------------------------------
+dnl read Makefile.in and write Makefile
+AC_OUTPUT(Makefile)
diff --git a/makefile b/makefile
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..20c0822
--- /dev/null
+++ b/makefile
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+.PHONY: default configure distclean
+
+ifeq ($(wildcard configure),)
+default: configure
+else
+default: all
+endif
+
+configure:
+	@set -ex; autoconf
+	@rm -rf autom4te.cache
+	@echo "*** You should now run ./configure or make ***"
+distclean:
+	-$(MAKE) -f Makefile clean
+	-rm Makefile configure config.h v4l-utils.spec
+
+-include Makefile
+
+ifeq ($(wildcard Makefile),)
+all:
+	./configure
+	@$(MAKE) -f Makefile all
+endif
diff --git a/utils/qv4l2/qv4l2.pro b/utils/qv4l2/qv4l2.pro
index 87cf097..939b71f 100644
--- a/utils/qv4l2/qv4l2.pro
+++ b/utils/qv4l2/qv4l2.pro
@@ -9,6 +9,6 @@ CONFIG += debug
  # Input
  HEADERS += qv4l2.h general-tab.h v4l2-api.h capture-win.h
  SOURCES += qv4l2.cpp general-tab.cpp ctrl-tab.cpp v4l2-api.cpp capture-win.cpp
-LIBS += -L../../lib/libv4l2 -lv4l2 -L../../lib/libv4lconvert -lv4lconvert -lrt -L../libv4l2util -lv4l2util
+LIBS += -L../../lib/libv4l2 -lv4l2 -L../../lib/libv4lconvert -lv4lconvert -lrt -L../libv4l2util -lv4l2util -ldl -ljpeg
  
  RESOURCES += qv4l2.qrc
diff --git a/v4l-utils.spec.in b/v4l-utils.spec.in
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c37780f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/v4l-utils.spec.in
@@ -0,0 +1,167 @@
+Name:           v4l-utils
+Version:        @@V4L_UTILS_VERSION@@
+Release:        1%{?dist}
+Summary:        Utilities for video4linux and DVB devices
+Group:          Applications/System
+# ir-keytable and v4l2-sysfs-path are GPLv2 only
+License:        GPLv2+ and GPLv2
+URL:            http://www.linuxtv.org/downloads/v4l-utils/
+Source0:        http://linuxtv.org/downloads/v4l-utils/v4l-utils-%{version}.tar.bz2
+Source1:        qv4l2.desktop
+Source2:        qv4l2.svg
+BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root-%(%{__id_u} -n)
+BuildRequires:  qt4-devel libsysfs-devel kernel-headers desktop-file-utils
+# For /etc/udev/rules.d ownership
+Requires:       udev
+Requires:       libv4l = %{version}-%{release}
+
+%description
+v4l-utils is a collection of various video4linux (V4L) and DVB utilities. The
+main v4l-utils package contains cx18-ctl, ir-keytable, ivtv-ctl, v4l2-ctl and
+v4l2-sysfs-path.
+
+
+%package        devel-tools
+Summary:        Utilities for v4l2 / DVB driver development and debugging
+# decode_tm6000 is GPLv2 only
+License:        GPLv2+ and GPLv2
+Requires:       libv4l = %{version}-%{release}
+
+%description    devel-tools
+Utilities for v4l2 / DVB driver authors: decode_tm6000, v4l2-compliance and
+v4l2-dbg.
+
+
+%package -n     qv4l2
+Summary:        QT v4l2 test control and streaming test application
+License:        GPLv2+
+Requires:       libv4l = %{version}-%{release}
+
+%description -n qv4l2
+QT v4l2 test control and streaming test application.
+
+
+%package -n     libv4l
+Summary:        Collection of video4linux support libraries
+Group:          System Environment/Libraries
+# Some of the decompression helpers are GPLv2, the rest is LGPLv2+
+License:        LGPLv2+ and GPLv2
+URL:            http://hansdegoede.livejournal.com/3636.html
+
+%description -n libv4l
+libv4l is a collection of libraries which adds a thin abstraction layer on
+top of video4linux2 devices. The purpose of this (thin) layer is to make it
+easy for application writers to support a wide variety of devices without
+having to write separate code for different devices in the same class. libv4l
+consists of 3 different libraries: libv4lconvert, libv4l1 and libv4l2.
+
+libv4lconvert offers functions to convert from any (known) pixel-format
+to V4l2_PIX_FMT_BGR24 or V4l2_PIX_FMT_YUV420.
+
+libv4l1 offers the (deprecated) v4l1 API on top of v4l2 devices, independent
+of the drivers for those devices supporting v4l1 compatibility (which many
+v4l2 drivers do not).
+
+libv4l2 offers the v4l2 API on top of v4l2 devices, while adding for the
+application transparent libv4lconvert conversion where necessary.
+
+
+%package -n     libv4l-devel
+Summary:        Development files for libv4l
+Group:          Development/Libraries
+License:        LGPLv2+
+URL:            http://hansdegoede.livejournal.com/3636.html
+Requires:       libv4l = %{version}-%{release}
+
+%description -n libv4l-devel
+The libv4l-devel package contains libraries and header files for
+developing applications that use libv4l.
+
+
+%prep
+%setup -q
+
+
+%build
+make %{?_smp_mflags} CFLAGS="$RPM_OPT_FLAGS" CXXFLAGS="$RPM_OPT_FLAGS" \
+  PREFIX=%{_prefix} LIBDIR=%{_libdir}
+
+
+%install
+rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
+make install PREFIX=%{_prefix} LIBDIR=%{_libdir} DESTDIR=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT
+# below is the desktop file and icon stuff.
+mkdir -p $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_datadir}/applications
+desktop-file-install --dir $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_datadir}/applications \
+  %{SOURCE1}
+mkdir -p $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_datadir}/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps
+install -p -m 644 %{SOURCE2} \
+  $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_datadir}/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps
+
+
+%clean
+rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
+
+
+%post -n libv4l -p /sbin/ldconfig
+
+%postun -n libv4l -p /sbin/ldconfig
+
+%post -n qv4l2
+touch --no-create %{_datadir}/icons/hicolor &>/dev/null || :
+
+%postun -n qv4l2
+if [ $1 -eq 0 ] ; then
+    touch --no-create %{_datadir}/icons/hicolor &>/dev/null
+    gtk-update-icon-cache %{_datadir}/icons/hicolor &>/dev/null || :
+fi
+
+%posttrans -n qv4l2
+gtk-update-icon-cache %{_datadir}/icons/hicolor &>/dev/null || :
+
+
+%files
+%defattr(-,root,root,-)
+%doc README
+%dir %{_sysconfdir}/rc_keymaps
+%config(noreplace) %{_sysconfdir}/rc_keymaps/*
+%config(noreplace) %{_sysconfdir}/rc_maps.cfg
+%config(noreplace) %{_sysconfdir}/udev/rules.d/70-infrared.rules
+%{_bindir}/cx18-ctl
+%{_bindir}/ir-keytable
+%{_bindir}/ivtv-ctl
+%{_bindir}/v4l2-ctl
+%{_bindir}/v4l2-sysfs-path
+%{_mandir}/man1/ir-keytable.1*
+
+%files devel-tools
+%defattr(-,root,root,-)
+%doc README
+%{_bindir}/decode_tm6000
+%{_bindir}/v4l2-compliance
+%{_sbindir}/v4l2-dbg
+
+%files -n qv4l2
+%defattr(-,root,root,-)
+%doc README
+%{_bindir}/qv4l2
+%{_datadir}/applications/qv4l2.desktop
+%{_datadir}/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/qv4l2.svg
+
+%files -n libv4l
+%defattr(-,root,root,-)
+%doc COPYING.LIB COPYING ChangeLog README.lib TODO
+%{_libdir}/libv4l*.so.*
+%{_libdir}/libv4l
+
+%files -n libv4l-devel
+%defattr(-,root,root,-)
+%doc README.lib-multi-threading
+%{_includedir}/libv4l*.h
+%{_libdir}/libv4l*.so
+%{_libdir}/pkgconfig/libv4l*.pc
+
+
+%changelog
+* Thr Oct 06 2011 Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com> 0.9.0-test
+- Initial v4l-utils.spec file

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

[Mauro Carvalho Chehab]

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?

Regards,
Mauro

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

[Hans Verkuil]

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.

Regards,

	Hans

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

[Hans de Goede]

Hi,

On 10/06/2011 02:23 PM, Hans Verkuil wrote:
> 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.

Didn't we've this same discussion back when v4l-utils was formed, and didn't
the dvb-apps people want to keep doing there own tree + release?

I'm fine with this if it gets buy in from the dvb-apps people, but if they
don't want this I'm strongly against it!

Which would leave just media-ctl, I'm fine with that going into v4l-utils,
and Laurent getting direct push access to v4l-utils (if he does not have
that already), but in that case I would like to keep the v4l-utils name as
renaming is a pain for distros and leads to confusion.

Regards,

Hans

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

[Mauro Carvalho Chehab]

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

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

[Mauro Carvalho Chehab]

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.

Hans,

FYI, I'm getting this when compiling from the v4l-utils tree (even before the merge):

g++  -o qv4l2 qv4l2.o general-tab.o ctrl-tab.o v4l2-api.o capture-win.o moc_qv4l2.o moc_general-tab.o moc_capture-win.o qrc_qv4l2.o    -L/usr/lib -L../../lib/libv4l2 -lv4l2 -L../../lib/libv4lconvert -lv4lconvert -lrt -L../libv4l2util -lv4l2util -ldl -ljpeg -lQtGui -lQtCore -lpthread 
qv4l2.o: In function `ApplicationWindow::setDevice(QString const&, bool)':
/home/v4l/work_trees/media-utils/utils/qv4l2/qv4l2.cpp:149: undefined reference to `libv4l2_default_dev_ops'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

This error occurs at the upstream tree (and also on my tree, as I didn't fix it there)

Cheers,
Mauro

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

[Hans de Goede]

Hi,

On 10/07/2011 03:02 PM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> 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.
>
> Hans,
>
> FYI, I'm getting this when compiling from the v4l-utils tree (even before the merge):
>
> g++  -o qv4l2 qv4l2.o general-tab.o ctrl-tab.o v4l2-api.o capture-win.o moc_qv4l2.o moc_general-tab.o moc_capture-win.o qrc_qv4l2.o    -L/usr/lib -L../../lib/libv4l2 -lv4l2 -L../../lib/libv4lconvert -lv4lconvert -lrt -L../libv4l2util -lv4l2util -ldl -ljpeg -lQtGui -lQtCore -lpthread
> qv4l2.o: In function `ApplicationWindow::setDevice(QString const&, bool)':
> /home/v4l/work_trees/media-utils/utils/qv4l2/qv4l2.cpp:149: undefined reference to `libv4l2_default_dev_ops'
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>

Yeah, that is because qmake is stupid and add /usr/lib[64] to the library path and adds it *before* the
paths we've specified in its template, so if you've an older libv4l2 installed in /usr/lib[64] when building
you get this.

To fix it, first do a make; make install in the lib subdir, with LIBDIR setup up to overwrite the old version.

Regards,

Hans

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

[Mauro Carvalho Chehab]

Em 07-10-2011 10:05, Hans de Goede escreveu:
> Hi,
>
> On 10/07/2011 03:02 PM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>> Hans,
>>
>> FYI, I'm getting this when compiling from the v4l-utils tree (even before the merge):
>>
>> g++ -o qv4l2 qv4l2.o general-tab.o ctrl-tab.o v4l2-api.o capture-win.o moc_qv4l2.o moc_general-tab.o moc_capture-win.o qrc_qv4l2.o -L/usr/lib -L../../lib/libv4l2 -lv4l2 -L../../lib/libv4lconvert -lv4lconvert -lrt -L../libv4l2util -lv4l2util -ldl -ljpeg -lQtGui -lQtCore -lpthread
>> qv4l2.o: In function `ApplicationWindow::setDevice(QString const&, bool)':
>> /home/v4l/work_trees/media-utils/utils/qv4l2/qv4l2.cpp:149: undefined reference to `libv4l2_default_dev_ops'
>> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>>
>
> Yeah, that is because qmake is stupid and add /usr/lib[64] to the library path and adds it *before* the
> paths we've specified in its template, so if you've an older libv4l2 installed in /usr/lib[64] when building
> you get this.
>
> To fix it, first do a make; make install in the lib subdir, with LIBDIR setup up to overwrite the old version.

Didn't work, as the Fedora package installed it at /usr/lib, while make install installed at /usr/local/lib.

(ok, I forced it anyway, by renaming the old library, but this sucks)

The right thing to do is to get rid of it from qv4l2.pro. I can see two possible solutions:

1) add a logic at the build target that would do something like "cat qv4l2.pro|sed s,"\-L/usr/lib",,";

2) Don't use -L for the libraries. In this case, we'll need to add some logic to include either the .so or the
.a version of the library, depending on the type of the libraries that were generated.

Cheers,
Mauro


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

[Manu Abraham]

On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 5:53 PM, Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> wrote:
> 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.

We had a discussion earlier on the same subject wrt dvb-apps and the
decision at that time was against a merge. That decision still holds.

Regards,
Manu

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

[Hans de Goede]

Hi,

On 10/07/2011 03:46 PM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> Em 07-10-2011 10:05, Hans de Goede escreveu:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 10/07/2011 03:02 PM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> Hans,
>>>
>>> FYI, I'm getting this when compiling from the v4l-utils tree (even before the merge):
>>>
>>> g++ -o qv4l2 qv4l2.o general-tab.o ctrl-tab.o v4l2-api.o capture-win.o moc_qv4l2.o moc_general-tab.o moc_capture-win.o qrc_qv4l2.o -L/usr/lib -L../../lib/libv4l2 -lv4l2 -L../../lib/libv4lconvert -lv4lconvert -lrt -L../libv4l2util -lv4l2util -ldl -ljpeg -lQtGui -lQtCore -lpthread
>>> qv4l2.o: In function `ApplicationWindow::setDevice(QString const&, bool)':
>>> /home/v4l/work_trees/media-utils/utils/qv4l2/qv4l2.cpp:149: undefined reference to `libv4l2_default_dev_ops'
>>> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>>>
>>
>> Yeah, that is because qmake is stupid and add /usr/lib[64] to the library path and adds it *before* the
>> paths we've specified in its template, so if you've an older libv4l2 installed in /usr/lib[64] when building
>> you get this.
>>
>> To fix it, first do a make; make install in the lib subdir, with LIBDIR setup up to overwrite the old version.
>
> Didn't work, as the Fedora package installed it at /usr/lib, while make install installed at /usr/local/lib.
>
> (ok, I forced it anyway, by renaming the old library, but this sucks)
>

Agreed (that it sucks).

> The right thing to do is to get rid of it from qv4l2.pro. I can see two possible solutions:
>
> 1) add a logic at the build target that would do something like "cat qv4l2.pro|sed s,"\-L/usr/lib",,";
>
> 2) Don't use -L for the libraries. In this case, we'll need to add some logic to include either the .so or the
> .a version of the library, depending on the type of the libraries that were generated.

We're not adding the -L/usr/lib, qmake is when it generates the Makefile, which is why I gave up after
a quick attempt to fix it. Patches welcome :)

Regards,

Hans

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

[Mauro Carvalho Chehab]

Em 07-10-2011 15:08, Manu Abraham escreveu:
> On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 5:53 PM, Hans Verkuil<hverkuil@xs4all.nl>  wrote:
>> 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.
>
> We had a discussion earlier on the same subject wrt dvb-apps and the
> decision at that time was against a merge. That decision still holds.

Yes, years ago when v4l-utils tree were created. Since them, there was several
major releases of it, and not a single release of dvb-apps, with, btw, still
lacks proper support for DVB APIv5.

So, why not discuss it again?

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

[Manu Abraham]

On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 5:42 PM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab
<mchehab@redhat.com> wrote:
> Em 07-10-2011 15:08, Manu Abraham escreveu:
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 5:53 PM, Hans Verkuil<hverkuil@xs4all.nl>  wrote:
>>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> We had a discussion earlier on the same subject wrt dvb-apps and the
>> decision at that time was against a merge. That decision still holds.
>
> Yes, years ago when v4l-utils tree were created. Since them, there was
> several
> major releases of it, and not a single release of dvb-apps, with, btw, still
> lacks proper support for DVB APIv5.
>
> So, why not discuss it again?

- dvb-apps is a repository consisting of simple stand-alone utils,
basically meant for raw tests alone.
(these tiny test apps don't have any external dependencies, so there
exists no issues regarding packaging. for such a development model, a
merge with a repository having other dependencies, this merge concept
doesn't work well)
In fact your own example repository with --disable this --enable that
implies that, one needs to download the whole thing, altogether. I
don't need to download things that's irrelevant to me.

- a repository and how it works depends on the people working with it.
(It depends on the comfortability of the people working
with/maintaining it. It was found that the existing model works well
and needs no change)

- just simply making a release number, doesn't make a new release.
(That said, a release is very near)

- I don't see any significant contributions either from Hans V, the
proposer for the merger of dvb-apps, or from you.

- API v5 is severely broken in many senses and unusable in the way it
is supposed to be used, it is still worked around using the v3 API
(I will address this broken issue and try to have a fix in another mail)