[Slackbuilds-users] Calling all gphotofs users

[B. Watson]

...if there actually are any gphotofs users...

There hasn't been a gphotofs release in over a decade, until a couple
weeks ago.

In 2013, when I last version-updated gphotofs, I had a camera I was
able to test it with (in fact, that camera was the whole reason I
wanted a gphotofs on SBo). I never made a lot of pictures, and at some
point during the last 12 years I lost the camera.

So there's now a gphotofs 1.0 release. I asked someone on IRC to test
it with his cameras, and he reported 2 cameras that worked in 0.5 did
*not* work in 1.0.

So what I'm asking for... anyone here who uses gphotofs, or who owns a
camera supported by the gphoto2 library[1] and would like to help out,
please try building gphotofs 1.0 with the existing SlackBuild. All it
needs is the 1.0 source:

https://github.com/gphoto/gphotofs/releases/download/v1.0/gphotofs-1.0.tar.bz2

...md5sum is 137e5b195409a1858c189ddd6dade823

Run the SlackBuild with the source in the script dir, and VERSION=1.0
in the environment. Install the gphotofs-1.0 package. See if your
camera works. Let me know what results you get.

Also. If anyone who actually uses gphotofs regularly would like to
take over maintenance, that would work for me. I can't afford to go
buy a camera I don't need *just* to test a piece of software I no
longer need...

[1] To see if your camera's supported, you can run this command:

$ gphoto2 --list-cameras|less

...and page through or use / to search for your camera.