pyvnc2swf and vnc2flv

[Jos Vos]

Hi,

I was looking for a tool to record X/VNC session in a movie and found
pyvnc2swf.  But looking at the project's home page,
<http://www.unixuser.org/~euske/vnc2swf/index.html>;, I see that the
development has been superseded by its successor, vnc2flv,
<http://www.unixuser.org/~euske/python/vnc2flv/index.html>;,
since 2 years.

Maybe Fedora should upgrade to this new version for F17.

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[Casey Dahlin]

On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 12:18:01PM +0100, Jos Vos wrote:
>  Hi,
>  
>  I was looking for a tool to record X/VNC session in a movie and found
>  pyvnc2swf.  But looking at the project's home page,
>  <http://www.unixuser.org/~euske/vnc2swf/index.html>;, I see that the
>  development has been superseded by its successor, vnc2flv,
>  <http://www.unixuser.org/~euske/python/vnc2flv/index.html>;,
>  since 2 years.
>  
>  Maybe Fedora should upgrade to this new version for F17. 
You should contact the maintainer directly and see if he will package
the new app (or at the very least retire the old one so a new maintainer
can obsolete it).

--CJD

[Development discussions related to Fedora]

On 29/11/11 06:51, Casey Dahlin wrote:
>  On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 12:18:01PM +0100, Jos Vos wrote:
> > I was looking for a tool to record X/VNC session in a movie and found
> > pyvnc2swf.  But looking at the project's home page,
> > <http://www.unixuser.org/~euske/vnc2swf/index.html>;, I see that the
> > development has been superseded by its successor, vnc2flv,
> > <http://www.unixuser.org/~euske/python/vnc2flv/index.html>;,
> > since 2 years.
> >
> > Maybe Fedora should upgrade to this new version for F17. 
Since the two tools
output different file types, my thinking would be 
for both applications to be able to install side by side.

As packager of pyvnc2swf, I modified the existing app names in pyvnc2swf 
so that their names wouldn't clash with existing fedora app names. 
Possibly the same was/is needed for vnc2flv ?

>  You should contact the maintainer directly and see if he will
> package
>  the new app (or at the very least retire the old one so a new maintainer
>  can obsolete it). 
I don't think the old one needs retiring, since it still
works as 
expected. In fact there is already a (stale) Review Request:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=567877

Jos: how would you like to finalise the work done by Chen, and bring 
this packages to acceptable state ?