Tracking some cool features in forks of PyExifTool

[sylikc]

In an effort to see where the community has taken PyExifTool before I forked my copy, I've now looked through all 93 forks (at the time of writing) and going to see what people have done with it. I'll probably have some discussion topics as to whether or not to include certain features from forks.

But given the current branch which makes PyExifTool really extensible, I might be able to include a lot more features without breaking any users (at least when everyone is on 0.5.x and above)

[sylikc]

I found the features of this fork extremely interesting... @alanlgardner 's fork had overloaded the += and -= assignment operators and a bunch of other special stuff to make it easier to work with tags directly as objects!

https://github.com/alanlgardner/pyexiftool/blob/master/exiftool.py

I had kinda thought about that recently. What if I could queue up tag editing and then do the disk writes all at once?

[sylikc]

I've now went through all the forks and made comments as to what each does... the one above is extremely interesting, and then there's a few that are related to encoding and stuff which I'm less familiar with.

Forks with encoding

this dev did a map fsencode on writing: smarnach/pyexiftool@master...demery:master
this dev did an encode before writing: halloleo@c9ac8ee

this one I commented on as it is pretty new, with getpreferredencoding() smarnach/pyexiftool@master...mchaptel:master

Forks with -n

Most other changes are very environment-specific, and quite a few remove the -n arg, which is now a parameter in the constructor anyways.

CI/CD Fork

This fork updates some CI/CD stuff which is also interesting smarnach/pyexiftool@master...KairosAerospace:master