Define cams to include in release

[reticulatedpines]

We can only release for cams in platform/Makefile, ML_CAMS var. The release can be a subset of those cams. Presently, my assumption is we won't release anything for XF605 (untested), or any Digic 8 cams (too unstable).

Therefore, this list:
100D 1100D
200D
500D 50D 550D 5D2 5D3 (113 and 123) 5D4
600D 60D 650D 6D 6D2
700D 70D 750D 77D 7D2
80D
EOSM

This ticket is for any discussion re changing the list.

It can be closed when we have a working release build system and have confirmed that builds are generated for the above cams, and only the above cams. Not sure how the old system did that, probably this needs small changes to the build system.

[kitor]

77D and 80D needs work to be on par with 200D, but that's doable.

On D8 I'm not sure. Having minimal builds (I mean just menus, shutter count stuff, maaybe lens info) may be beneficial to the community - as for now there's no free method to check shutter count other than playing with cam_info.xml via cbasic.
On the other hand this would require some work to include cbasic bootflag enabler in those builds and find a good way to tell people how to make a bootable card for that.

[WalterSchulz]

As mentioned in discord:
Would like to see M2 and 1200D integrated if it can be done with reasonable amount of work.

[reticulatedpines]

For D8, needing another bootflag enabling mechanism documented is a good point, and more work. Making a minimal-but-stable build is a sensible goal, but a fair amount of test work for something that wouldn't feel worth an official release to me. It would be useful to have an experimental build for listing shutter, as you say.

The work needed would be useful steps along the path to D8 releases. That work could happen in parallel, and if it finishes before everything else, we could reconsider for including D8 cams in official releases.

[reticulatedpines]

For M2 and 1200D - integrating the code is significant but not very high amounts of work. It would be possible for any dev that's done a D45 port to do most of this. The longer we leave it, the higher the difficulty will become; main repo code has diverged from old official.

Test effort for M2 and 1200D might be high. I don't know what confidence we have in the branches that semi-support these cams.

If we can find a dev to do the bulk of this work, I'll happily work with them to explain any changes between repos causing problems, review code etc. I do not want to do this work myself for this release. I'd strongly consider doing it myself for the next release if we can't find someone else this time; it's not that hard and I want to unify all the useful forks, branches etc.