[mythtv] Interesting Comparison

[Lasse Nisted]

You are correct and I am sorry.

As an excuse I just didn't like him calling his perl script a
``web-based equivalent of MythTV'' -- It lacks many (important)
featurures. And those some of those features are the exact
reason why this is not written in perl, and why it's not just
~1700 lines of code.

But his ideas should not just be flamed. And of course a
big bloated bug infested code-base should be avoided.

- Lasse

On 3/3/06, Green, Bob <bob.green at logicacmg.com> wrote:
>
> Okay, its head above the parapet time! Guys, guys, what's going on here?
> Isn't this how wars start? Whatever happened to reasoned debate; to the
> freedom to express an opinion without being shot down in flames. So, someone
> has a new tool that he thinks is the dog's wotsits - how is that a Bad
> Thing(tm). Do none of you programmers out there not remember what its like
> to write some code that you think is great and you end up boring all your
> friends with the details. Anyway I digress; my view (for what it's worth) is
> that we should be openminded about any new developments, large or small that
> in any way overlap MythTv's raison d'etre. We can't believe that we have a
> monopoly on good ideas. As soon as we stop looking outward, we end up with a
> product that is in danger of becoming stale. Give this guy a chance. We
> might hate his offering, we might like it - who knows, but whatever we do,
> we should encourage this sort of thing rather than flame it. For those of
> you who remember life before Linux, remember what happened to Andrew
> Tannenbaum of Minix fame. He absolutely flamed Linus Torvalds and his
> software when he announced version 0.11 of Linux and within a couple of
> months he and his (up to then) thriving operating system had been consigned
> to obscurity.
>
> Oh well, I'll stop ranting now, I guess I've made my point - the stupidest
> idea is one that is never voiced for fear of it being ridiculed.
>
> Time for a lie down in a quiet room, I think :-)
>
> -Bob
>
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> *From:* mythtv-dev-bounces at mythtv.org [mailto:
> mythtv-dev-bounces at mythtv.org] *On Behalf Of *Lasse Nisted
> *Sent:* 03 March 2006 10:11
> *To:* Development of mythtv
> *Subject:* Re: [mythtv] Interesting Comparison
>
> Are you saying you actually implemented OSD, XvMC acceleration,
> VIA XvMC acceleration, LiveTV (with pause, etc.)
> in... perl? Or is that in the normal feature set of a browser?
>
> I'm impressed if the answer to any of those questions is yes,
> though I don't think it is...?
>
> On 3/3/06, mythtv at zacglen.com.au < mythtv at zacglen.com.au> wrote:
>
> > >No idea what the point of starting this thread was but at least reading
>
> >Chris Pinkham's reply did crack me up :)
> >
>
> The point is that MythTV is bloated bug-ridden software which
> mostly just duplicates the functionality of a browser.
>
> Do the math - 112,792 lines vs a probable 3000 lines of Perl.
>
> Do the experiment - try developing a Perl/whatever version and see how far
> you
> get, how long it takes, and what the result is like.
>
> I have taken the trouble to do the experiment.
> The results are impressive.
>
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