[mythtv] MythTV Licensing Question

Lennart Sorensen lsorense at csclub.uwaterloo.ca
Wed Jun 1 14:56:40 UTC 2011


On Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 03:41:40AM -0400, Marc Feldman wrote:
> I am attempting to put together an open-source project to serve as the
> infrastructure for a large, networked, community.
> I am considering using MythTV, but I am intrigued by your comments above.
> 
> What do you consider MythTV "design mistakes"?
> 
>  If you were designing PVR software today, where would you start?  Would you
> still rely on C and C++, or would you build with higher level languages?

The programming language really doesn't qualify as design.  Nothing wrong
with the current language being used.  Lots of people know it and finding
compilers is simple on any platform.

> Please feel free to direct me to previous forum or blog posts, but I have
> not been able to find much.
> 
> Thank you for your help, and for your excellent contributions to the MythTV
> project.

-- 
Len Sorensen


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