[ptx] Re: Renewing OSX Distribution

[JD Smith]

On Thu, 2006-08-10 at 14:14 -0500, Paul Lundgren wrote:
> Rob
> 
> Ok, I'm starting to get the picture.  Autopano-sift is a separate app  
> for automatically applying control points. Is it supposed to be  
> better or somehow different than the Auto Add feature in Hugin? Is it  
> any better than manually selecting control points in Hugin? By better  
> I mean accurate, not quicker.

It's better because it picks them all for you (many dozens, if you
want), and almost never gets one wrong.  It's worse because it may not
put control points where you actually want them to be (especially in
fisheye images), and can't do horizontal/verticals.  

Auto Add and all that stuff should probably be cleaned up too... it's
way too many options, all of which relate to just manual control point
addition.  It simply means the control point gets added as soon as
defined, rather than having to click the "Add" button.  

We could do away with auto add altogether by keeping track of which
control point pair is active, highlighting it, and allowing the user to
"abort" by hitting delete.  There's no reason to maintain a distinction
between "control points which are final and included on my list for
good" and the point actively being edited.

> The installation seems to be beyond me anyway. I don't know anything  
> about unix/command line stuff.

Right, which is why it should "just work" from the installed .app, which
is what 99% of users will use.  

JD