[libcamera-devel] [PATCH v4 16/16] py: examples: Add simple-cam.py

[Jacopo Mondi]

Hi Tomi,

On Mon, Jun 06, 2022 at 12:00:16PM +0300, Tomi Valkeinen wrote:
> On 05/06/2022 15:46, Jacopo Mondi wrote:
> > Hi Tomi
> >
> > On Mon, May 30, 2022 at 05:27:22PM +0300, Tomi Valkeinen wrote:
> > > Add a Python version of simple-cam from:
> > >
> > > https://git.libcamera.org/libcamera/simple-cam.git
> > >
> > > Let's keep this in the libcamera repository until the Python API has
> > > stabilized a bit more, and then we could move this to the simple-cam
> > > repo.
> > >
> >
> > Looks very nice and it could indeed be added to the simple-cam
> > repository (or should we create an example directory in libcamera
> > sources ?)
>
> I think examples in libcamera repository makes sense. Why was the simple-cam
> added to a separate repository originally?
>

I don't recall we had any discussion. Simple-cam started as a
live-coded example for a conference talk, than it has been made a
"real" application later by Kieran, but I don't remember if we had
discussions about where to keep it.

Probably we considered cam and qcam more useful examples ?
One other thing is that if we keep simple-cam in libcamera repository,
it will have to be updated when the API change, which is good as we
know it will be up to date, but is one more thing to maintain on the
other hand...

>  Tomi