[mythtv] "Allow recording even if duplicate episode" is ignored?

[Joseph A. Caputo]

On Thursday 25 September 2003 01:50 pm, Geoffrey Hausheer wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 23:34:15 -0400, "Joseph A. Caputo
> jcaputo1-at-comcast.net |mythtv/1.0-Allow|" 
> > I don't consider it going 'overboard' if it gives me the ability to
> > always 
> > have it 'do the right thing'.  Some series I record always have a
> > subtitle 
> > but no (or the same) description, and others always have a unique
> > description 
> > but no (or the same) episode title.  Rather than forcing me to accept
> > someone 
> > else's idea of what constitutes a duplicate, I think a UI to allow me to 
> > choose the behavior makes the most sense.  The Advanced Recording screen
> > is 
> > the ideal place, as it's meant for folks you want that extra level of 
> > control.  Those that want as simple a GUI as possible should use the
> > standard 
> > recording screen.
>
> Well, there is an easy solution to this.  Myth isn't designed by
> committee.  Write some code, and submit it.  If Isaac likes it, it goes
> in.  If not, he'll either give you feedback on how to make it acceptable,
> or he'll tell you he doesn't like the idea.  In any of the above cases,
> you have code that works for you, regardless of what he thinks.  It is
> rare to convince someone else to write code for you, especially for
> obscure features, and endless discussion is unlikely to help.


Well, the point is, I *did* write some code for the GUI, but I threw it away 
b/c I didn't feel like tackling the whole 'squeeze more things/add a second 
page' to to Advanced Recordings screen.  It's still on my to-do list; I don't 
know when I'll get to it, as 'real life' is demanding atm.  If someone else 
is going to beat me to it, that's fine; but it seems silly to me to replace 
one hard-coded 'broken' behavior with another one.  Why not do it just once?  
Because if somebody changes the hard-coded duplicate detection behavior now 
to some other hard-coded behavior, I'm just going to go in eventually and 
change it again to something configurable.  Obviously we have here a 
situation where there is no 100% 'right' way to detect duplicates, so why 
lock users in to one way?

Just my $.02

-JAC