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

[Achim Bohnet]

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
> 
> Angelo
> 

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