C++ conversion

[gigablast]

It seems that motion has to be converted to C++ to use opencv nowadays? (because opencv abandoned support for C?)

It would be quite useful to integrate opencv, and could be done by essentially turning motion into a C library
which is then called by some newly created C++ code. And then passing pointers to C functions, which such functions are defined in the C++ code, to the motion code in order to do opencv-related processing. I'm not even sure this is the issue, but thought it would be an easy way to C++-ify motion.

[genius3000]

I believe OpenCV is already supported in the C++ fork of Motion.
See: https://github.com/Motion-Project/motionplus

[Mr-Dave]

Matt is correct. Limited OpenCV processing is in MotionPlus. It is currently able to use haar cascades for secondary detection. (None of the other methods from OpenCV have been implemented due to limited time.)

Motion will not be converted to C++ and instead has generally gone into maintenance only mode. All of my efforts and all the Motion requested enhancements will instead only be put into MotionPlus unless there is a very compelling reason.