[meego-packaging] Removing OpenCV

[Carsten Munk]

2010/11/28 Michael Leibowitz <michael.leibowitz at intel.com>:
> On 11/28/2010 06:59 AM, Zhu, Peter J wrote:
>>
>> It’s not used by any verticals or included in any pkg groups.
>
> How are these decisions made?  OpenCV is a computer vision library that
> enables developers to create applications that use image recognition. This
> is an area of active interest by several developers and is one of the areas
> where developers on competing platforms are making interesting use of
> computer vision to make compelling applications.  By removing libraries and
> utilities, we simply make it harder for developers to get started making
> something compelling and interesting with MeeGo.
>
> Shouldn't our goal to be to enable the vast amount of software out there for
> Linux/Unix that enables application development, rather than removing
> anything that isn't directly used?  Aren't we making a distro for mobile
> application developers?

Disclaimer: I actually like OpenCV, used it for my master's thesis..

I think the question is also a bit, where's the FEA# for this, who's
the maintainer and who QA's the APIs provided by OpenCV?

I thought I saw utility programs denied because of having no FEA# so I
would assume we'd have a FEA# (and a good reason) for having OpenCV as
part of MeeGo.

In the new project setup [1], I assume OpenCV would be in
Applications/Reference? Maybe we should first delete packages after
reorg when it's more clear what's Core and what's Reference
applications/libs.

BR
Carsten Munk

[1] http://wiki.meego.com/Build_Infrastructure/Roadmap#Build_System_Project_Reorg