opencv: extract some base code to a lib

[Sebastian Dröge]

On Mon, 2016-11-07 at 16:25 +0000, philippe renon wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I would like to extract some opencv base code from the opencv plugin
> to a library.
> This would allow plugin writers to create their own opencv easily.
> 
> The opencv plugin is in gst-plugins-bad/ext/opencv.
> 
> I would like to move gstopencvutils.[h|cpp] and
> gstopencvvideofilter.[h|cpp] to gst-plugins-bad/gst-libs/gst/opencv.
> gstopencvutils provides a number of utilities and
> gstopencvvideofilter is the base class for writing opencv filter
> elements.
> 
> I think I know how to do it and it will be inspired from the
> similarly organized ext/gl and gst-libs/gst/gl modules.
> 
> My issue is library name:
> The gl libraries are named libgstopengl (for the plugin) and libgstgl
> - at GST_API_VERSION@ for the library.
> Shortening opencv to cv will probably not be accepted.
> Having two libgstopencv libraries that differ only in one having a
> version postfix will probably not be accepted too.

The latter is the situation of libgstapp-1.0 and libgstapp (plugin).
I see no problem here :)

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Sebastian Dröge, Centricular Ltd · http://www.centricular.com
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