Re: How dead is f-spot

[Jack <ostroffjh sbcglobal net>]

On 2014.12.06 18:03, f-spot-f unternet org wrote:
> Jack wrote:
> > Gentoo just marked f-spot as dead with the comment "Dead for 4  
> > years, relies on obsolete lcms, bundles a lot of libs.  Removal in a  
> > month."
> >
> > The only git items I see in the log for the last year and a half are  
> > translation issues.  Is there any hope of revival, or do I really  
> > need to start looking for a replacement?
>
> Start looking for a replacement. Even if f-spot development were to  
> pick up again (which seems unlikely but who knows, especially given  
> Microsoft's latest moves with regard to .Net), it is always a good  
> thing to be able to fall back on an alternative.
>
> If you have (access to) a server you could give the openphoto project  
> (now commercialised under the 'Trovebox' moniker, but the free  
> software bits still work as intended) a try. It has no problems  
> managing large archives, you get instant web albums (which is not  
> that strange, seeing that openphoto/trovebox is a web service) and  
> you can host the data in many ways, using your own hardware or online  
> services.

I'm planning on trying both shotwell and digikam.  The first apparently  
already has the ability to import from f-spot (including tags) and I've  
seen a script for migrating from f-spot to digikam.  (I run a mostly  
KDE system, but do have a few gnome apps.)  I'll keep openphoto

I do note that the activity on github mono/f-spot is at least a bit  
more recent then the gnome version, so I'm going to see if I can  
actually compile from there, including using the newer lcms, but I  
don't plan on spending much time on it.