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

[Tom Albers]

Op vr 26 jan 2007 18:09 schreef u:
> 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 :)

What i find weird in the sources is this comment:
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 * NOTE: This class is a simplified version of Digikam::DMetadata
 *       class from digiKam core. Please contact digiKam team
 *       before to change/fix/improve this implementation.
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Sounds like we are duplicating code and making it a maintainance nightmare.  

Nobody is waiting to maintain this package, so my question is simple: who is going to generate packages for this library??

Toma