Re: Binary descriptors for OpenCV

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> skribis:

> Nathan Dehnel <ncdehnel@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Perhaps such greyzone objects that can't be fully regenerated should
>> be put in their own channel so users know where they are and it
>> doesn't become a mystery how many they have installed on their
>> systems.
>
> I would want put a variant of the opencv package in the guix-science
> channel if we decide not to include them, because xfeatures2d is useful
> for feature detection in scientific applications (that’s the only reason
> why I’m looking into this).
>
> However, it would be good to come up with a policy anyway.

Yes, the problem is machine-learning output comes up more and more
frequently.

I agree we need to come up with a policy (I’m a bit torn on this and not
too sure what I’d put in there.)  Maybe we should set up a working group
with interested parties to draft something; who’s in?

Ludo’.