On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 11:48 AM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab
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
> 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
> Date: Sat Jun 6 20:46:10 2015 -0300
>
> Patch: use REQBUFS properly
>
> Author: Mauro Carvalho Chehab
> 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
> 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
>
> Author: Rafael Azenha Aquini
> 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
