[mythtv] Steppes Theme question

[Stuart Auchterlonie]

On 03/02/17 17:55, Peter Bennett wrote:
> On 02/03/2017 11:54 AM, Stuart Auchterlonie wrote:
>> The script that builds the theme packages can be told to point to the
>> right branch name Let me know what needs doing. 
> I think that part of it OK, it is my own build of MythTV that needs to
> change. If you create your own branch of 0.28 that is not called
> fixes/0.28 the MythTV theme chooser always defaults to "trunk" for the
> themes. My local git tracking branch that tracks "fixes/0.28" is called
> "mythtv-fixes/0.28" and as a result themechooser is downloading themes
> from "trunk" instead of from 0.28.
> 
> My suggestion would be to base the theme download on the program version
> instead of on the git branch it was built from. This would mean parsing
> the version number, which should not be too hard.
> Has anybody else experienced this problem, to warrant making this change?
> 

Unless i'm miss understanding you, it's already doing this.

The code checks the themes website for data from its version and
then all the way down to the original release.

eg. 0.27.4, 0.27.3, 0.27.2, 0.27.1, 0.27


On a related note, the themes website will need revamping at some point.
I have several ideas floating around in my head, including providing the
available themes metadata via json, and making the themes site able to
show previews of the themes.


Regards
Stuart