Loud ramblings of a Software Artisan

Mark Pilgrim commenting on his own post about his switch to Linux:

Yes, as I noted a few weeks ago, I bought the Canon PowerShot SD450. When I plugged the camera into my shiny new install, Ubuntu immediately recognized it and offered to import the photos, which I did, and it worked. I believe this is the work of libgphoto2, which is one of those amazing little libraries that does one incredibly useful thing incredibly well and just keeps getting better for free. Someone out there *really* cares about interfacing with digital cameras, in much the same way that I *really* care about parsing RSS and Atom feeds.

Thanks Mark, you made my day with this user testimonial. I know switching is not easy, and I'm really happy that the libgphoto developers made your life easy for that part.

I release libgphoto2 2.2.1 yesterday after getting some report of breakage on non-Linux platforms. Nothing else has been added.

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Thanks to everybody for the feedback and help.

I expect to release what is in TRUNK within a month as it improve largely the support of digital audio players and as there is a huge patch to support capture with Canon 5D and 20D.

I finally took myself from a huge slacking, and I released libgphoto2 and gphoto2 2.2.0. It was long overdue.

News from 2.1.6 incude:

• support for USB Mass Storage cameras (one API for all)
• support PTP over IP
• support MTP devices (Digital Audio Players, yes)
• support lot of new cameras
• fix several outstanding bugs

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