[mythtv] Status Question: Is current SVN useable?

Simon Kenyon simon at koala.ie
Fri Jan 18 11:40:45 UTC 2008


Reza Naima wrote:
> It's been forever since the last real release of mythtv (other than for
> adding schedules direct support), and thing have been breaking in MythTV
> that have not been address (from my understaning).  For example,
> mythweather.  
>
> It seems like there's a lot of work underway for the next release, but
> I'm getting a bit anxious, and my friends vista/media center looks
> really nice.  So my question is :
>
> - is the current svn stable enough to use now?  
> - if not, how long till it will be, or how long till the next major
>   release (guesstimation)
> - are there any killer features comming down the pipeline?
>
> I basically need to decide if I'm going to stay with mythtv or jump
> ship.  I've been using MythtTV forever (5+ years), and have been happy,
> but it just seems that media center has caught up, and with their
> plugins (commercial-skip, real-time streaming ala slingbox,
> web-interface), support for Amazon's unbox, and the slated support for
> the HDPC-20 make me really question staying with MythTV...
>   
apart from weather, the whole lot has been usable forever.
every now and then something breaks and it takes a day or two to resolve.
but i have run svn (and before that cvs) in a production environment 
(ie. this is the only way i can watch tv in my bedroom) for a long time now

some may say that that is foolish, but it works for me.
--
simon



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