100% agree. This is a disaster for Ubuntu. OpenCV is hugely important to a ton of people.
On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 4:29 PM, combieone <u9yo1ovjgfwe2...@mailcatch.com> wrote: > Wow, this is outrageous, it needs to be fixed immediately. This fucks up > everybody working in computer vision. This is a huge amount of people. > OpenCV 2.4.9 is from 2014 and not even the bugfix releases up to 2.4.12 > have made it into Ubuntu. 3.0 came out in 2015... and 3.1 in January > this year. Come on. Compiling from source creates a huge hassle for > everybody when you want to distribute your software or code. 99% of the > people running our stuff are not nerds like us experienced developers > that can compile OpenCV with CMake in 15mins. Ubuntu, you can do better > than that. Not having 3.0/3.1 in 16.04 is a horrendous disappointment. > This cannot happen. > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug > report. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1540168 > > Title: > Update OpenCV version for 16.04 > > To manage notifications about this bug go to: > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/opencv/+bug/1540168/+subscriptions > -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to opencv in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1540168 Title: Update OpenCV version for 16.04 Status in opencv package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in opencv package in Debian: Fix Released Bug description: The Ubuntu 16.04 alpha still only contains OpenCV 2.4. It would be really good to update to OpenCV 3.1 for a distribution to be released in 2016, as the 2.4 series is getting quite old. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/opencv/+bug/1540168/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
