[Scilab-users] Atoms Modules

[Federico Miyara]

Dear All,

I haven't used IPCVso far, but I was planning to start trying it when 
finishing with a project that will take me still most of 2021. And 
probably earlier than that, since something as basic as reading or 
saving an image file is not in the core of Scilab (I think it should be, 
in line with the availability of wavread / wavwrite or csvRead functions).

If terminating maintenance could eventually lead to an incompatibility 
with future versions of Scilab, I think it would be a bad thing.

But the addition of new features is a different question, and as usually 
happens with any FOSS project, is driven by the users's wish-lists and 
requests and by developers which are sufficiently motivated to work on 
those features. If there is no demand then there is no need to go further.

Regards,

Federico


On 18/12/2020 15:22, Samuel Gougeon wrote:
> Dear Chin Luh,
>
> Thank you so much for addressing the critical topic of external 
> modules maintenance.
> While IPCV is the most downloaded module, your fair question
> >So should IPCV continue to be maintained ...?
> sounds desperate to me. I rather share the same feeling: Almost 5 days 
> after your message, not a single answer from users...!
>
> So, apparently, the answer is likely: No, it's not worth maintaining 
> the most downloaded module, and therefore No, it's not worth 
> maintaining any other external module.
> Let's stop maintaining ATOMS for 2021. The ghosts of silent users are 
> certainly rich enough to pay commercial equivalent tools.
>
> Since there are 12 days left before 2021, i will answer for particular 
> cases in separate (sub-)threads.
>
> Best regards
> Samuel
>
> Le 14/12/2020 à 05:44, Chin Luh Tan a écrit :
>> Sometimes it is hard to decide whether to continue maintaining an 
>> atoms module or not.... So I did "snapshots" of downloads on 
>> 9/11/2020 21:44 and 14/12/2020 12:20 respectively to see which 
>> modules are in the actual top downloads.
>>
>> Still, this is not a fair result, such as IPCV having some "patches" 
>> which will increase the download number, and some other factors as well.
>>
>> So should IPCV continue to be maintained ...?
>>
>> Here's the results.
>>
>> Image Processing and Computer Vision Toolbox 	4620
>> CPGE 	3176
>> MinGw toolbox 	2946
>> Arduino 	2936
>> CelestLab 	2841
>> iodelay toolbox 	2429
>> Coselica 	1812
>> SIMM 	1800
>> Image Processing Design Toolbox 	1394
>> Fuzzy Logic Toolbox 	1186
>> Scilab Computer Vision Module 	1129
>> GUI Builder 	972
>> Scilab Image and Video Processing toolbox 	860
>> Distfun 	855
>> Apifun 	804
>> Serial Communication Toolbox 	781
>> Time Frequency Toolbox 	776
>> Free Access Chemometric Toolbox 	770
>> Autoelem Toolbox 	768
>> Specfun 	738
>>
>
>
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