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+= ** THIS GEM/REPO IS NO LONGER MAINTAINED **
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+The last release of the `opencv` gem was on July 25th, 2009: https://rubygems.org/gems/opencv/versions/0.0.7
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+Please use an alternative OpenCV wrapper.
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 = OpenCV
 
 The initial Open Computer Vision library was originally developed by Intel