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[Andreas Nyback <andreas@xxxxxxxxxx>]

This is very good news. Just want to send a message of encouragement.
All the changes you state looks like very welcome and like good decisions.
Looking forward to try it out.

brgds
Andreas

Damon Lynch skrev den 2015-01-28 17:41:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I know things have been very quiet for Rapid Photo Downloader for the
> past 12 months or so. I want to let you know that behind the scenes
> I'm working on the next version. I don't know when it will be out, but
> I thought it best to let you all know that progress is happening.
>
> My goals for the next version are to:
>
>   * Make it possible to download from any camera or phone gphoto2
>     supports, instead of just some cameras (a very common request)
>   * Eliminate program freezes like there were in late 2012 and
>     throughout 2013
>   * Where possible increase performance,
>   * Keep up with changes in the free software world
>   * Make it easier to maintain the code
>
> To achieve these goals, I have decided to do the following:
>
>   * Drop the use of Gnome GIO (which has been how Rapid Photo
>     Downloader has interfaced with cameras until now), and instead use
>     libgphoto2 to communicate directly with the camera. This is
>     possible because there are now Python bindings for libghoto2.
>   * Drop Python multiprocessing, and switch to 0mq
>     <http://zeromq.org/> for inter-process communication.
>   * Drop PyGTK and switch to PyQt 5
>   * Switch from Python 2.6 / 2.7 to Python 3.4.
>   * Drop pyexiv2 (which has been abandoned), in favor of Gexiv2
>   * For video metadata, drop hachoir-metadata and kaa-metadata (which
>     have both been abandoned) in favor of ExifTool
>
> The change to PyQt 5 requires substantial changes to the code.
>
> It's still early days, but currently the next version can scan a
> device and generate thumbnails. On some test data I have (more than
> 16,000 photos totalling almost 40GB), the new version was able to
> complete the scan and generate the thumbnails in 2 minutes 19 seconds,
> vs. 7 minutes 14 seconds for the current release (0.4.10). The next
> version will no doubt slow as I add more features (it's very primitive
> at the moment), but in terms of performance at least, progress is
> looking good.
>
> Don't hesitate to ask if you have any questions.
>
> Best,
> Damon
> -- 
>
> http://www.damonlynch.net
>
>
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