[Digikam-devel] Digikam packages and latest versions

[Gilles Caulier]

It's typically a packaging problem with your distro.

As i compile myself on different OS, i don't have a high level
feedback to report, excepted to said that Windows stuff is a really
shame to build.

But under other Linux OS, when dependencies are solved, compilation
and run-time are fine, outside external lib dependencies which can
crash digiKam (as OpenCV/Gphoto2 confilct about IEE1394 interface for
ex...)

Gilles Caulier

2012/9/13 Leonardo Giordani <giordani.leonardo at gmail.com>:
> Hi all,
>
> I would share with you a big issue I experience with digikam, hoping to
> start an improvement in digikam itself.
>
> Digikam is evolving very fast, and this is a clear sign of both the
> excellence of the product and the of the community of developers.
> Unfortunately it seems to evolve too fast from a user point of view.
>
> Being time-boxed by my official work this year I no more contributed to
> digikam as developer, but I always use it and I constantly experienced the
> annoyance of not being able to install the latest version of digikam.
>
> I'm currently on Ubuntu Precise 12.04 and the digikam package contains
> version 2.5.0. Ubuntu Quantal (out in a month) will contain version 2.8.0.
> At the beginning of september digikam reached 2.9.0, 3.0.0 is under
> development, and I really would like to use the features you people add to
> this great software (and the bugfixes!).
>
> You could tell me to change my distro: this is a solution, but I don't think
> it touches the real point. After all I can, as developer, change my distro,
> run a virtual machine, build the software by my own, etc.
>
> But as user I simply would like to install that latest, fantastic, version
> of digikam. Should I say "just like Windows users do?": yes, in this cases I
> really see a difference between me and a Windows user, and in the comparison
> I lose.
>
> I really don't have an idea about a possible solution, so I'm just sharing
> my thoughts with you developers, since I really value your work on digikam.
> I would be happy to hear from you what you think about it and if some of you
> would be interested in finding a solution for what I think is a real issue
> for a standard user (not a developer).
>
> Thank you very much in advance.
>
> Leo
>
>
>
> --
> Leonardo Giordani
>
>
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