On Fri, 2012-05-25 at 08:24 +0800, Conrad Parker wrote:
I've downloaded and built this. I had to also download Claude Heiland-Allen's v4l2 source from gitorious, as that package does not seem to be on hackage (though his other related packages are). I guess your package won't build on hackage until v4l2 is uploaded ...
You're right, I remember I had to do that too when I first started the thing.
In any case I was able to run "cabal sdist". It gave a warning about no Setup.hs file; I've sent you a pull request which adds this, and also relaxes some library constraints in the cabal file.
Thanks! I will add your suggestions (probably tonight) with pleasure.
Two questions:
* you've set the license to GPL3, but the C libraries it builds on are LGPL-2.1 (libv4l2) and repa and the haskell bindings it uses are BSD3. GPL3 seems a bit restrictive for a library.
The gpl is sort of my default license. I know it is a little restrictive, so if that keeps people (if any) from contributing, I will change the license. As far as I can see, I would be able to change it to lgpl then, but not to bsd.
* the name hsimage is fairly broad, I'd suggest a simpler name like repa-v4l2. If you want to support other device APIs or add other software image processing routines, I think it would make more sense to put those in separate packages.
That was indeed my intent. I first wanted something for image processing, but seeing that there was nothing like I wanted for webcams, I started doing that. I think your suggestion for a simpler name makes sense, will probably also do that. BTW, I could not find any "more or less standard" way to represent images in Haskell. Is there anything like that? I don't know if that would make sense except being able to interact with different potential imaging packages. Maybe it's good enough to just copy image data over in most cases. Thanks again for all your suggestions, that was very helpful! Christian