[Kde-graphics-devel] libkface

[Albert Astals Cid]

El Dimecres, 17 de setembre de 2014, a les 15:07:59, Tobias Leupold va 
escriure:
> Hi list!
> 
> I'm from the KPhotoAlbum project. We recently introduced support for face
> detection and face recognition using libkface. Likely, this will be a part
> of the next release. Actually, we are the first project apart from Digikam
> (who initiated and maintain libkface) to use libkface.
> 
> This leads to a problem: at the moment, libkface is distributed with the
> Digikam sources. There's an own git repository for the lib's sources in the
> KDE repositories, but there's no own release.
> 
> Some distributors (e. g. Gentoo) have an own package for libkface
> nevertheless, others don't (e. g. Debian). So, at the moment, we would have
> to include libkface in our sources, as Digikam does (which would lead to
> collisions if both KPA and Digikam would be installed and is perhaps not a
> good idea) or we would have to pull the full Digikam package as a
> dependency if the user wants libkface support.
> 
> Both "solutions" don't seem to be nice.
> 
> Thus, Gilles Caulier from Digikam suggested to move libkface into
> kdegraphics/libs, so that it will be included into the normal KDE release
> cycle and will be independent of Digikam, cf. the discussion on the Digikam
> mailing list:
> 
> http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/digikam-devel/2014-September/075737.html
> 
> He said I had to ask the kdegraphics mailing list if the admins would also
> agree to do so.
> 
> So what do you think?

I don't think adding to kdegraphics/libs is needed, you can just make 
independent releases from it's current living position at extragear/libs, no?

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> Yours, Tobias
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