Re: Binary descriptors for OpenCV

[Nathan Dehnel]

Yeah, sure, I could offer my input.

On Wed, Aug 16, 2023 at 11:55 AM Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> 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’.