Re: [Lensfun-users] Lensfun: the past, the current state and the future

2019-04-21 Thread mail
I recommend in prior to make a release of the library quickly, to push a very important information to the community : the project is alive ! Well, actually it is not really alive. I probably will not do any more bigger contributions or maintenance tasks. Torsten Bronger is having a hard jo

Re: [Lensfun-users] Lensfun: the past, the current state and the future

2019-04-21 Thread mail
I still don’t see how this can be made in smaller steps. The good news is that most of the path to the next release is behind us, at least in my estimation. Yes, it was necessary to refactor these parts of Lensfun although it stalled the project for quite some time. In the end we got a much

Re: [Lensfun-users] Release schedule?

2018-10-29 Thread mail
Am 2018-10-29 13:51, schrieb Gilles Caulier: digiKam project already use the last alpha package with the Windows, MacOS, and Linux AppImage bundle. That's good news. The Windows version crash at startup as a memory corruption appear while database is loaded. Sound like the crash must be fixed

Re: [Lensfun-users] Is lensfun still ongoing?

2018-01-08 Thread mail
Am 2018-01-08 14:54, schrieb John J Bloomfield: Hi Sebastian, Thanks for replying. I really appreciate it. Forgive my ignorance though, can I ask your role in the project? I am one of the two main developers and mostly do the core coding and source code maintenance. Torsten, who also runs th

Re: [Lensfun-users] Is lensfun still ongoing?

2018-01-08 Thread mail
Hi John, One volunteer Junkyardsparkle did come back to me to say they didn't know and generally be very helpful so I submitted some images to try and help plug some gaps this gave me access to the github and I can see that since the 6th November 2017 nobody other than junkyardsparkle has picked

Re: [Lensfun-users] Compilation

2016-11-24 Thread mail
Hello Urs, > I get the error: > > CMake Error at cmake/modules/FindGLIB2.cmake:68 (MESSAGE): > Could not find glib2 > Call Stack (most recent call first): > CMakeLists.txt:91 (FIND_PACKAGE) > Seems you are missing the glib2 library headers and stuff. Recently, I tried MSYS2 as a build envi

Re: [Lensfun-users] ImportError: liblensfun.so.1 on Mint 17.2

2016-02-23 Thread mail
Hi Maik, some distributions do not include /usr/local/lib directories to the default library search path. However, most build systems default the build directory to be prefixed as /usr/local to avoid conflicts with other libs installed by the package manager. So developers who build own packag

Re: [Lensfun-users] Lensfun issue: aliases

2015-02-25 Thread mail
Am 2015-02-25 21:33, schrieb Torsten Bronger: > Hallöchen! > > We need alias names for cameras and lenses. How could be dealt with > the fact that a certain camera models have different names on > different continents? > How is that handled curently? I remember some workaround with the languag

Re: [Lensfun-users] Lensfun issue: The API of lfModifier is bad

2015-02-25 Thread mail
> Therefore, lfModifier doesn't have a constructor. Instead, there > are "Create" and "Initialize" methods that must be called to have a > functioning object. "Create" sets the coordinate scale, and > "Initialize" adds the callbacks to the callback chain. Yes, that should be changed! > > All o

Re: [Lensfun-users] Lensfun issue: Getting rid of bogus camera mounts

2015-02-25 Thread mail
Am 2015-02-25 21:38, schrieb Torsten Bronger: > Hallöchen! > > I'd like to have an alternative for making up all those bogus camera > mount names for compact cameras with fixed lenses. There are no > mounts like "powershotA60" after all. Any alternative must allow > for two things: > > - ther

Re: [Lensfun-users] Lensfun issue: calibration = lens

2015-02-25 Thread mail
> > Let's start with the toughest one: Lensfun makes no distinction > between lens and calibration. This means that we may have one lens > multiple times in the database. While we can certainly deal with > that (it is only unelegant), Lensfun is currently unable to take > calibration data from d

Re: [Lensfun-users] Lensfun issue: Lack of primary keys in the database

2015-02-25 Thread mail
Am 2015-02-25 21:36, schrieb Torsten Bronger: > Hallöchen! > > Well, actually we do have primary keys now. They are defined in > lensfunprv.h. But they combine multiple string fields, and even > worse, these fields may change over time (e.g. lens model name). > This is unpleasant for the calling

Re: [Lensfun-users] Lensfun issue: Handling of invalid values

2015-02-25 Thread mail
Am 2015-02-25 21:37, schrieb Torsten Bronger: > Currently, Lensfun returns a very big float for undefined values, Lensfun should not just simply return a very big float for any undefined values. For example y=1/x should return MAX_FLT for x -> 0, but y = tan(x)/x should return 1 for x -> 0. So t

Re: [Lensfun-users] Distortion correction profiles

2014-12-27 Thread mail
Am 2014-12-16 10:34, schrieb sjb: > On 15/12/14 19:38, Sebastian Kraft wrote: > >> That's OK, maybe Torsten is currently busy with other things. But >> don't >> worry, it will not be forgotten. We are unfortuantely a quite small >> team >> of only two more or less active people and Torsten is th