[Digikam-users] Digikam file management / building it for Mac OS

[Julien Narboux]

2009/7/30 Vlado Plaga <rechner at vlado-do.de>

> Am Thu, 30 Jul 2009 18:25:01 +0200
> schrieb Vlado Plaga <rechner at vlado-do.de>:
>
> > I haven't finished compiling "beta 3" on Mac OS yet, but since that
> > might take a few hours, I'm already sending this e-mail now. At least
> > it downloaded the sources and started compiling.
>
> Now compilation finished, but the program again crashes immediately
> after startup.
>
> Note: I had to manually patch
> digikam-1.0.0-beta3/libs/3rdparty/lqr/lqr_energy_priv.h
>
> like this:
>
> http://trac.macports.org/browser/trunk/dports/graphics/liblqr/files/patch-lqr__lqr_energy_priv.h?rev=51312
>
> The author of liblqr is aware of the problem, so in the next release it
> should be fixed:
>
> http://liblqr.wikidot.com/forum/t-169529/small-patch-needed-to-compile-liblqr-on-mac-os:change-upstream-package
>
> I guess it is something of a philosophical question why digiKam brings
> its own private version of a library, instead of using the system
> version (which in MacOS/MacPorts is already patched)...


In fact, it is supposed to use by default the system version and use the
private version only if no system version can be found.
This means that the detection of the library is broken on MacOS.

I think the reason we keep a private copy of the library is that it was
easier for the user to compile digikam. I guess that when lqr will be
properly packaged in all main distributions and that the detection of the
library works properly the private version of library will be removed from
digikam.
It was added at a time when we were using a version of lqr which was not
released.



> or why
> functionality such as this is included at all, although everyone using
> digiKam might as well use the Gimp for complex image editing functions.
>

The gimp lqr plugin is more complicated to use than Digikam's one, it is
adapted to the philisophy of gimp using layers, but not everyone wants to
use/understand layers.
IMHO Liquid rescale is not such a complex image editing function (from the
user point of view).

Regards,

Julien

>
> Regards,
> Vlado
>
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