[Pxc] pxc and pxcdd libraries anyone ?

[Alessandro Rubini]

> (assuming the list is still active

Yes, it is. Although there are a pair of pending issues I didn't deal
with, yet.

> haven't been able to access the archives so far

Ok, thanks for reporting. I'm forwarding the comment to people at prosa.

> but wonder if anyone has already some
> work porting/reverse-engineering the Imagenation SDK,
> i.e. the PXC2, FRAME and PXCDD libraries. 

I don't know what those beasts are, but I don't think anyone is
working on that. As far as the incompatibility between my
implementation and ImageNation's API, it's because I don't like theirs
(this is an independent project, not paid by ImageNation, so I've been
free to do whatever I felt best doing).

> I know, that SDK is not exactly ideal, but it'd be
> soooo nice to be able to port all my frame grabber
> software from Winblows by a just a recompile or
> little more... 

As a matter of facts, I initially planned to implement a compatibility 
library, useable by including "pxc200-compat.h" (or similar name) and
by linking with -lpxc.

I think the hooks are still there (an empty.c file, correctly handled
by the Makefile to build an empty library).

If anyone is willing to implement a library with functions compatible
with the ImageNation API, I've almost no objections.  However, if I
don't like the implementation I'll place the files under contrib/
after telling the author what I don't like in the library. Also, I've
no (big) objections to using the LGPL (or other open source) licence
for the library; it's up to the author of the contributed parts.

Or are you referring to something else?

Regards
/alessandro