[Digikam-users] Thank you
jeff
theonlyjeffjordan at gmail.com
Fri Apr 17 06:06:27 BST 2015
I too would like to thank Gilles and Veachslav and everyone that has
ever worked on digiKam. I have been using it since 2007 and except for a
couple of unstable versions, it's positively the BEST photo management
program ever written.
I manage almost a million photos in digiKam. I have a dual Xeon 8 core
computer running Debian and 16MB RAM. I hope one day digiKam can take
advantage of all those cores.
There's nothing out there that comes close to the capabilities of digiKam.
Thank you all. Keep up the great work.
Jeff
Account, Listserv wrote:
> Gilles and Veaceslav -- First, I appreciate your years of work on the
> digikam project. Thank you.
>
> In response to Gilles' question: The packaging script uses a staging
> directory to hold files actually needed to run digikam and the other
> applications. I made a list through trial and error, of libraries,
> configuration files, icons, etc. which otool couldn't identify but
> which should be included. These include the runtime libraries, or at
> least the ones whose absence caused a problem that I noticed (e.g. the
> qtmysql library). I manually added them to the list files to be run
> through the dependency lister and copied to the package.
>
> I presume that manually listing files for inclusion will cause the
> script or finished packages to break whenever the runtime dependencies
> change. But I'm not aware of any automated way to prepare that list.
>
> I sent you links to download the scripts, after adding some comments.
> Hopefully those and the readme will provide enough explanation to be
> comprehensible. I don't mind if you put them on the git repository if
> that would be useful, but I suggest they should be sanity-checked by
> someone who knows what they're doing first.
>
> Please let me know if you have questions.
>
> Shanti
>
> On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 3:29 PM, Gilles Caulier
> <caulier.gilles at gmail.com <mailto:caulier.gilles at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Shanti,
>
> thanks to share your experience.
>
> I would to know more your your bin packaging workflow under OSX. I use
> MacBook pro here, so, if your host your script in digiKam git
> repository, i will able to build bin package for next version
>
> Your script must be documented. A text file is enough to host with
> script. We need to know all dependencies, settings, OSX-XCode-macports
> version to use, etc...
>
> Q : how did you solve KDE run time dependency with you package. For
> ex, digiKam still to use KIO-Slave. How did you package it ?
>
> Gilles Caulier
>
> 2015-04-16 21:12 GMT+02:00 Veaceslav Munteanu
> <veaceslav.munteanu90 at gmail.com
> <mailto:veaceslav.munteanu90 at gmail.com>>:
> > Hello,
> >
> > good work.
> >
> > I guess we can but your packaging scripts on the git, since we also
> > have different bootstrap stripts for different linux distribution.
> >
> > Having them on the git, somebody else can pick them up and
> improve, if needed.
> >
> > Veaceslav
> >
> > On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 8:51 PM, Account, Listserv
> > <listaccount at revenant.org <mailto:listaccount at revenant.org>> wrote:
> >> I have assembled two digikam 4.9.0 binary packages for OS X,
> including
> >> external MySQL database support. They were made using
> bash/python scripts to
> >> build it from MacPorts in a a virtual machine. One was built
> with a +debug
> >> variant, the other isn't.
> >>
> >> I've seen regular requests for OS X binary packages on the web
> page and this
> >> list, as well as complaints about the
> length/complexity/reliability of
> >> building digikam with MacPorts. So I figure I should share --
> if you would
> >> like to test them, email me directly and I'll send you a link.
> >>
> >> I'm not posting links to the list for two reasons. First, I
> don't want
> >> someone to just grab and install binary packages, expecting a
> stable,
> >> official digikam release, instead of a risky bastardized
> derivation that
> >> I've cobbled together. I'm not a coder. This is my first crack
> at packaging
> >> a MacOS application. The build/package scripts include "rm -rf"
> but not
> >> error checking. My testing has been limited to opening digikam and
> >> showfoto, looking through my photos, and some photo
> manipulations. Some
> >> photographs I rotated using my digikam 4.0.0 package were
> corrupted -- I
> >> don't know if that was due to my packaging. Anyone who is
> testing the
> >> packages or scripts should be very cautious -- back up the
> photos and the
> >> computer it's running on, test it in a VM, etc..
> >>
> >> Second, I don't think I'll have time to properly support OS X
> binary
> >> releases. From what I can tell, properly scripting this build
> and package
> >> process would have been be simple for someone who knows what
> they're doing.
> >> Due obligations and lack of skill, it's taken me over a year of
> intermittent
> >> work to make my clumsy scripts. I likely won't have time or
> skill to fix
> >> problems. If you notice something's not right (e.g. why won't
> the packaged
> >> versions use Aqua widgets?) you'll have to investigate and fix
> it yourself
> >> (then share the answer hopefully).
> >>
> >> All that said, email me off-list if you understand my cautions
> and are
> >> interested in testing -- and improving upon -- what I've put
> together.
> >>
> >> Shanti
> >>
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