Richard Shaw left as an exercise for the reader:
> So the only problem I see is that notcurses depends on ffmpeg, which is not
> allowed in Fedora. I see it's technically "optional", but I wonder about
> the usefulness of the resultant package without it.
ooh, I was unaware of this. FFmpeg is only used for
decoding/scaling images and video. An NCURSES-like level of
functionality is possible without it, one which will still
benefit from e.g. RGB color and multithreading safety.
Up to you which way to go... I don't see packaging it in RPM Fusion as a problem. I would think most people who would be interested in this package would likely not have a problem enabling RPM Fusion.
I've been considering throwing another image-decoding backend
into the project, as FFmpeg draws in a huge dependency chain on
Debian as well. What's the preferred "kitchen sink" image
decoder these days? libimagemagick? What's recommended for
Fedora/Rawhide, if I ideally want to:
1) throw a file/memory buffer at the lib without having to know
anything about image format,
2) get 24-bit RGB or 32-bit RGBA back, and
3) have it handle scaling?
The best candidate I can think of that would at least handle 2 and 3 would be OpenImageIO (which I maintain for Fedora). I'm not an expert at using it though, but it is a dependency for Blender for Cycles rendering.
It's well maintained and the author is very helpful and responds to questions quickly via the mailing list. It in combination with OpenColorIO (which I also maintain) have been used in production of several animated movies so you know it's very robust.
> It's technically possible to be sponsored at RPM Fusion first (I was) but
> it's not preferred. Perhaps one of your other projects could be submitted
> here first?
I'm not sure I understand your meaning. Do you have a page I can
reference? Thanks!
Unlike Debian, Fedora is hosted in the US so RPM Fusion exists to package programs with patent/licensing issues (rpmfusion-free) including binary blobs like the NVidia drivers (rpmfusion-nonfree).
Only fully FOSS without patent or licences issues can be packaged in Fedora.
Thanks,
Richard