Loud ramblings of a Software Artisan

Released gphoto2 and libgphoto2 2.1.6 last night. Get it ! Thanks to all the work put in by volunteer, without manufacturer support.

It does not include my recent work. That is scheduled for 2.2.0

I started to publish how the manufacturers do not cooperate to gphoto. I published a list on the gphoto website. It is awesome to see that they don't provide documentation but send people to gphoto.

Currenty I'm quite soft.

In order to support mounted media filesystem from libgphoto2, I started adding libhal support. In fact I could have gone without, but libgphoto2_port desing lack some feature as it require to be able to list the devices available.

Here is what you get:

$gphoto2 --list-ports
Devices found: 35
Path                             Description
--
disk:/media/EOS_DIGITAL          Media 'EOS_DIGITAL'
...

and so on.

Later might add code to support hal udi reference, but for now, I have to fix the directory to use that port to be able to copy files of the filesystem.

That way, we can fix gnome-volume-manager to have ONE way to call application to import photos, unlike fixing each app like f-spot people seems to be willing to do.

Don't look for the code yet, it is not in CVS as I have to refine configure check to disable it if no libhal is found. It will require libhal 0.5.x anyway.

I just released libgphoto2 2.1.6-rc2. This is the second release candidate, released 2 month after the first one (yes, I suck) but that integrate 2 month of camera driver fixes.

I hope to release 2.1.6 in a week.

I also thought about make GNOME digital camera support much more plug and play. My 2004 20D digital camera did work out of the box with the 2002 eMac at my mom, running MacOS X. More about that later. It involve hacking on both GNOME and gphoto2.