[mythtv] noob to MythTV development

[Roger James]

On 12 March 2017 9:52:13 am Paul Harrison <mythtv at sky.com> wrote:

> On 11/03/17 14:49, Dave Mansfield wrote:
>> Hi -
>>
>> First time posting to the DEV maillist and mostly to introduce myself.
>>
>> Love the app - been toying around with it since 0.25 ("hosted" it on
>> SuSE, CentOS, and now Ubuntu). Never really dove under the hood too
>> much, but with my last hurdle being some remote control woes (I use an
>> MX-850 with six devices and until it's seamless, my wife will reject
>> using it!), I've decided to lean into things a bit more formally.
>>
>> So, I decided to poke about the bug tracker and cherry pick some
>> low-hanging stuff allowing me to get comfortable with the flow of things.
>>
>> With regards to development:  I've been looking at the web pages and
>> have not seen info on coding templates for Eclipse.  Has anyone who uses
>> Eclipse setup code templates?  If so, can I get an exported copy of the
>> templates?  (Spaces vs. tabs is an ironclad rule with me, too!)
>>
>
> I use KDevelop myself mainly just for editing purposes so sorry can't
> help with Eclipse.
>
>
>> On the overall architecture: Is there anything that paints the big
>> picture on how Myth is put together?  One of the more confusing aspects
>> is what's messaged or signalled vs. read in from the DB layer.  Most
>> helpful to be able to grok that out early..
>>
>
> You may have already found it but most of the development docs we have
> are here https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Category:Developer_Documentation
>
> To answer your question internally if the data we need is in the DB
> then we prefer to get it from there since it is much quicker.
>
> Sometimes the MythProtocol is uses for example if what we need is stored
> on the master BE then a message will be sent to it to get it things like
> what is currently recording or to grab something like coverart etc.
>
>> Cheers!
>>
>> --- Dave a.k.a. muddysteel
>>
>>
>
> Paul H.
>
>

Dave,

I use eclipse. All I do is use an external make file project. Getting 
source debugging to work is a real pain though.  Source containers and 
external makefile​ projects do seem to play well together.

Roger
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