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Create base package that does not depend on OpenCV variant #558
Description
❗Reverted
This needed to be reverted unfortunately - trying to actually depend on scenedetect-core precludes any downstream package from being installed with scenedetect as well. The scenedetect-core releases have been yanked from PyPI and the docs updated.
If you already installed scenedetect-core, please uninstall it and switch to scenedetect (or scenedetect-headless):
pip uninstall scenedetect-core
pip install scenedetect
Existing installs will keep working, but the package will not receive any further updates.
Original Issue
OpenCV ships 4 variants:
- opencv-python
- opencv-contrib-python
- opencv-python-headless
- opencv-contrib-python-headless
None of these can be combined, and right now to simplify things I made scenedetect depend on opencv-python and the -headless variant depend on opencv-python-headless.
We might need to further split out the packages into scenedetect-core so that downstream projects can decide which exact variant they want to include. That way scenedetect itself can continue to depend on opencv-python while other packages (e.g. dvr-scan) can include the contrib variant gracefully.
Activity
[dist] Split scenedetect into scenedetect-core #558
[dist] Split scenedetect into scenedetect-core #558
[dist] Split scenedetect into scenedetect-core #558
[dist] Split scenedetect into scenedetect-core #558
Breakthrough commentedon Jul 22, 2026
Done in c1fcb79 for v0.7.1: the repo root now builds
scenedetect-core(numpy-only deps, no OpenCV variant, no CLI), withscenedetect/scenedetect-headlessbuilt from packaging/variants/ via packaging/build_all.py. Convenience extrasscenedetect-core[opencv]andscenedetect-core[opencv-headless]are included. See the 0.7.1 changelog entry for details.Breakthrough commentedon Jul 23, 2026
This needs to be reverted unfortunately - trying to actually depend on scenedetect-core precludes any downstream package from being installed with scenedetect as well. Will yank the -core release and update docs ASAP.
If you already installed
scenedetect-core, please uninstall it and switch toscenedetect(orscenedetect-headless):Existing installs will keep working, but the package will not receive any further updates.
[docs] Remove scenedetect-core references
[docs] Remove scenedetect-core references
[docs] Update changelog after #558
Release v0.7.2 (#579)