Re: How dead is f-spot

[Dougie Nisbet <dougie highmoor co uk>]

I had a go but my knowledge of git etc is pretty sketchy. I get so far but eventually it fails due to not finding gmcs. So I try install that but no joy. This is Debian Jessie.

root skye:~# apt-get install mono-gmcs
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree      
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 mono-gmcs : Depends: mono-mcs (= 3.12.1-0xamarin1) but 4.2.2.30-0xamarin1 is to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

On 04/02/16 16:31, Stephen Shaw wrote:

At one point I tried to go through and fix a bunch of crashers and general improvement. We are starting to do a bit more with f-spot and hoping to get a release out at some point in the near-ish future. Most of the work has been stability and improvements and not very much on new features. If you want to try f-spot again and want to file any issues on github.com/mono/f-spot we can try and fix them. We also hang out on gitter.im/mono/f-spot

Cheers,

Stephen

On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 5:14 AM, Dougie Nisbet <dougie highmoor co uk> wrote:

On 04/02/2016 11:22, Alberto Mardegan wrote:

Sorry to tell you, that you are converting from one dead project to
another :-)
Yorba (the company behind Shotwell) has not been working on it since
about one year ago, and the project only receives few bugfixes
contributed by the community or downstream distributions.
Bugs filed on the project are left pretty much unanswered.

Ciao,
   Alberto

That's my experience too. I reluctantly abandoned f-spot - not due to lack of features but lack of stability. I liked it a lot. shotwell is ok but has some enormously frustrating limitations. I came across a favourite again yesterday: Browsing a selection of images and want to remove a particular tag from the selected images. Can't be done. I'd be prepared to go through a bit of pain to go back to f-spot if it was stable. It had all the basic features I needed as a photo management system.

Dougie

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