Re: Fwd: Re: RFS: renrot - a program to rename and rotate files according to EXIF tags [andriy@asplinux.ru]
On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 03:48:54PM +0000, Neil Williams <linux@codehelp.co.uk> wrote:
> Sending reply to the list for others to view:
>
>
> On 06/11/06 13:36:36, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> Neil Williams wrote:
> >>I am a whole newbie in the debian packaging. I've read the debian
> >>new maintainer guide and packed the my own OpenSource project
> >>renrot to it.
> >>The next step is a looking for sponsor to put pacakge into archive.
> >>
> >>The package and other stuff are placed at
> >>ftp://andriy.asplinux.com.ua/pub/people/andy/renrot/Debian/
> >>If you need more information, please, don't hesitate to ask.
>
> Thanks for notices. I put here more information.
>
> Name: renrot
> License: GPL or Artistic
> Description: A program to rename and rotate files according to EXIF tags
> Renrot renames files according the DateTimeOriginal and FileModifyDate
> EXIF tags, if they exist. Otherwise, the name will be set according to
> the current timestamp. Additionally, it rotates files and their
> thumbnails, accordingly Orientation EXIF tag.
> URL: ftp://andriy.asplinux.com.ua/pub/people/andy/renrot/Debian/
>
> Several projects like RenRot are available in the net, but why to choose
> namely RenRot?
> a) it is pure CLI with all it's advantage (no need KDE or any other
> monster to run);
> b) it uses Image::ExifTool (the best open tool to work with EXIF data)
> and libjpeg6 (the best open tool to operate JPEG format files, to
> correctly rotate both, the entire file and the thumbnail inside it);
> c) it has very much flex file naming and aggregation template engines;
> d) it uses original algorithm of smart Orientation tag rotation;
> e) it is a small Perl script - no need compilation, very high
> portablility.
FWIW, jhead already does all that, except that it's not a perl script.
Mike
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