On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 11:48 AM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mche...@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: spa...@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 <dougsl...@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 <dougsl...@redhat.com> > Date: Sat Jun 6 20:46:10 2015 -0300 > > Patch: use REQBUFS properly > > Author: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mche...@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 <mche...@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 <mche...@redhat.com> > > Author: Rafael Azenha Aquini <aqu...@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
