[Digikam-devel] [Kde-imaging] extragear/libs

[Caulier Gilles]

Le Vendredi 26 Janvier 2007 18:09, Achim Bohnet a écrit :
> On Friday, 26. January 2007 15:06, Angelo Naselli wrote:
> > Alle 13:55, venerdì 26 gennaio 2007, Gilles Caulier ha scritto:
> > > SVN commit 627390 by cgilles:
> > >
> > > New common library witch will be used by digiKam and kipi-plugins to
> > > handle Pictures metadata (Exif/Iptc).
> > >
> > > This shared library is a wrapper around Exiv2 library. It give a Qt
> > > like interface to control Exiv2 actions on pictures. Using this library
> > > will remove all duplicate code on kipi-plugins::exiv2iface and
> > > digikam::dmetadata.
> > >
> > > The current implementation is the same than kipi-plugins/exiv2iface.
> > > This library is not yet used in digiKam/kipi-plugins. We will added a
> > > new depency to this library in kipi-plugins in first and later to
> > > digiKam.
> > >
> > > CCMAIL: digikam-devel at kde.org, kde-imaging at kde.org,
> > > marcel.wiesweg at gmx.de
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >  A             libkexiv2 (directory)
> > >  A             libkexiv2/AUTHORS
> > >  A             libkexiv2/COPYING
> > >  A             libkexiv2/ChangeLog
> > >  A             libkexiv2/INSTALL
> > >  A             libkexiv2/Makefile.am
> > >  A             libkexiv2/NEWS
> > >  A             libkexiv2/README
> > >  A             libkexiv2/configure.in.in
> > >  A             libkexiv2/exiv2iface.cpp  
> > > kipi-plugins/common/exiv2iface/exiv2iface.cpp#627389 A            
> > > libkexiv2/exiv2iface.h  
> > > kipi-plugins/common/exiv2iface/exiv2iface.h#627389 A            
> > > libkexiv2/libkexiv2.lsm
> > >  A             libkexiv2/libkexiv2.pc.in
> > >  A             libkexiv2/libkexiv2_export.h   [License: LGPL (v2+)
> > > (wrong address)]
> >
> > Are you sure that is the right way to? In such a way we removed libkexif
> > to have libkexiv. That means another package to maintain and another
> > dependency. I'd expexted an internal kipi-plugins lib instead...
> > Just a thought of course.
>
> As digikam and kipi-plugins will use it (and maybe later other kipi apps
> or other image apps) it makes sense to do as standalone deb, like
> libkipi is not in kipi-plugins.
>
> In general IMHO we need more libs than more apps :)
>
> Achim

Right Achim,

I have contacted Jesper to use it into KphotoAlbum. He already use Exiv2 in 
KphotoAlbum core, but using a shared implementation can be a right way...

Gilles