Laurent Pinchart wrote: > Cons: > - Installing the uvcvideo driver from the source tree will require > installation of the v4l core module as well (and possibly other v4l/dvb > modules you require for the hardware you own and use). > > What's your opinion ? Is someone strongly opposed to the switch ? If so > please > state your reasons. All constructive opinions are welcome. > I'll add to the cons installing and learning yet another version control system. Also I remember that with some projects they require some new version of mercurial which is not found from any distribution (in that case there was no snapshots available), so even looking at the latest code was a serious pain in the ass (excuse me my expression) and required compiling the whole version control system from source. I hope nothing even resembling that experience will come out of the switch.
Also since I'm in China there's all kinds of blocks and connectivity problems, can the mercurial repository be checked out over http like the SVN can? If your only connectivity to the outside world is a proxy, HTTP is very handy. If not, that is a con as well, the tarballs help with it a bit but you don't REALLY want to do real work by always downloading a new tarball. linux-tv.org that you mentioned seems to be owned by some domain hijackers, so I guess you mean linuxtv.org? If I click the "CVS/Mercurial" link on their page I get an empty page. :) Not so convincing, but at "Repositories" link I can get links to tarballs. There's no easy way to get all required tarballs and nothing else, I really wouldn't list the tarballs as a pro since you have to get many of them... So generally I'm opposed to the change, but if that's the only way to avoid ugly ifdefs around the code then I guess have to say go for it. Personally judging by that email, I feel that the barrier to download and compile uvcvideo will be much higher than before, maybe even over the limit of doing it on your own. That's just my 5 euro cents (around 0.47 CNY with current rate). Juho
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