[ANN] added Zbar repository at linuxtv.org

[ANN] added Zbar repository at linuxtv.org

[Mauro Carvalho Chehab]

Hi,

Just to let you know, I added today a repository at linuxtv.org with a fork
of the ZBar bar code reader.

The Zbar tool is an interesting V4L2 application, as it reads code bars
from several different codes from a webcam (or a scanned file).

The original page for this project is at http://zbar.sourceforge.net/

Unfortunately, it doesn't have maintenance there, since 2012. This was
its last commit upstream:

	changeset:   362:38e78368283d
	tag:         tip
	user:        spadix@users.sourceforge.net
	date:        Sun Oct 14 23:02:08 2012 -0700
	summary:     Added tag iPhoneSDK-1.3.1 for changeset 5eb3c8786845

At least on Fedora, upstream version doesn't even compile 
without fixing configure.ac to work with modern automake tools.

As Douglas and I are maintaining this package under Fedora, and
I had to write some other patches on Fedora, in order to migrate it
to Qt5, I'm opting to keep a fork of its patched version at
linuxtv.org.

The version there is basically the original development tree,
converted from Mercurial to git. For the few patches at the
Fedora packaging repository, I added a commit, in order to 
preserve credits for the authors of the changes there.

Please notice that I don't have currently any plans to do any
development on it, doing mainly bug fixes as required to keep it 
building and working.

So, if anyone is interested on keeping maintaining it, please
ping me. Feel free to also send patches for it to linux-media ML.

Thanks,
Mauro


[1] I got the zbar patch credits by running:

	$ git log zbar*.patch

Please notice that this doesn't cover other patches that were there
at the repository, but got removed.

	Author: Douglas Schilling Landgraf <dougsland@redhat.com>
	Date:   Mon Aug 17 10:37:15 2015 -0300
	    zbar - zbar-0.10-25
    
	    Added:
	       zbar_configure_ac_use_m4_pattern_allow.patch
    
	    Removed:
	       zbar_dont_user_reserved_dprintf.patch

	Author: Douglas Schilling Landgraf <dougsland@redhat.com>
	Date:   Sat Jun 6 20:46:10 2015 -0300

    Patch: use REQBUFS properly

	Author: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
	Date:   Fri Feb 22 08:26:55 2013 -0300

	    Update to the very latest version of zbar
    
	    zbar was using a 2010 snapshot of its hg tree.
	    Take a new snapshot to get zbar's improvements.

	Author: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
	Date:   Sat Dec 25 10:57:22 2010 -0200

	    Only use emulated formats if real formats aren't supported
    
	    Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>

	Author: Rafael Azenha Aquini <aquini@fedoraproject.org>
	Date:   Sat Dec 18 14:43:10 2010 -0200
	
	    - Update it to the newest version available at zbar git directory
	    - Use libv4l to communicate with video devices

Re: [ANN] added Zbar repository at linuxtv.org

[Douglas Landgraf]

On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 11:48 AM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab
<mchehab@s-opensource.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Just to let you know, I added today a repository at linuxtv.org with a fork
> of the ZBar bar code reader.
>
> The Zbar tool is an interesting V4L2 application, as it reads code bars
> from several different codes from a webcam (or a scanned file).
>
> The original page for this project is at http://zbar.sourceforge.net/
>
> Unfortunately, it doesn't have maintenance there, since 2012. This was
> its last commit upstream:
>
>         changeset:   362:38e78368283d
>         tag:         tip
>         user:        spadix@users.sourceforge.net
>         date:        Sun Oct 14 23:02:08 2012 -0700
>         summary:     Added tag iPhoneSDK-1.3.1 for changeset 5eb3c8786845
>
> At least on Fedora, upstream version doesn't even compile
> without fixing configure.ac to work with modern automake tools.
>
> As Douglas and I are maintaining this package under Fedora, and
> I had to write some other patches on Fedora, in order to migrate it
> to Qt5, I'm opting to keep a fork of its patched version at
> linuxtv.org.
>
> The version there is basically the original development tree,
> converted from Mercurial to git. For the few patches at the
> Fedora packaging repository, I added a commit, in order to
> preserve credits for the authors of the changes there.
>
> Please notice that I don't have currently any plans to do any
> development on it, doing mainly bug fixes as required to keep it
> building and working.
>
> So, if anyone is interested on keeping maintaining it, please
> ping me. Feel free to also send patches for it to linux-media ML.
>
> Thanks,
> Mauro
>
>
> [1] I got the zbar patch credits by running:
>
>         $ git log zbar*.patch
>
> Please notice that this doesn't cover other patches that were there
> at the repository, but got removed.
>
>         Author: Douglas Schilling Landgraf <dougsland@redhat.com>
>         Date:   Mon Aug 17 10:37:15 2015 -0300
>             zbar - zbar-0.10-25
>
>             Added:
>                zbar_configure_ac_use_m4_pattern_allow.patch
>
>             Removed:
>                zbar_dont_user_reserved_dprintf.patch
>
>         Author: Douglas Schilling Landgraf <dougsland@redhat.com>
>         Date:   Sat Jun 6 20:46:10 2015 -0300
>
>     Patch: use REQBUFS properly
>
>         Author: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
>         Date:   Fri Feb 22 08:26:55 2013 -0300
>
>             Update to the very latest version of zbar
>
>             zbar was using a 2010 snapshot of its hg tree.
>             Take a new snapshot to get zbar's improvements.
>
>         Author: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
>         Date:   Sat Dec 25 10:57:22 2010 -0200
>
>             Only use emulated formats if real formats aren't supported
>
>             Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
>
>         Author: Rafael Azenha Aquini <aquini@fedoraproject.org>
>         Date:   Sat Dec 18 14:43:10 2010 -0200
>
>             - Update it to the newest version available at zbar git directory
>             - Use libv4l to communicate with video devices
>

Looks good to me Mauro, nice to see the fork at linuxtv.org.

-- 
Cheers
Douglas