[mythtv-users] SVN Upgrade (FC 4, Myth 18.1)

Mark Kundinger mkundinger at yahoo.com
Sat Oct 8 03:47:46 UTC 2005


--- Shane Liesegang <shane at techie.net> wrote:

> I'm really interested in some of the features that I've heard exist
> in the 
> SVN head branch of Myth (particularly MythUI). I know that installing
> from 
> SVN has no guarantee of functionality, but I know in other open
> source 
> projects, many people regularly use nightly builds without any kind
> of 
> real problems. What's the general opinion of the cutting edge builds?
> Is 
> it worth it? 

SVN is not a sure thing.  I started using it because I seemed to be
having problems with autoexpire on .18.1.  First, there's the
difficulties in getting the dependencies set up for everything to
compile (it took me forever to get Qt set up for some reason).

Odds are, any individual SVN grab of Myth will work pretty decent. 
However, if you start getting several versions, you're going to bonk
against something where something important doesn't work (it doesn't
compile, or can't record two shows back to back, or a memory leak, or
commercial flagging breaks... you get the idea).  Then, of course, when
a fix is developed, you need to grab that and hope nothing else
intervened.

To be honest, it's kind of fun grabbing the new code and seeing what
the developers are up to.  But if you have a wife depending on reliable
recordings of Desperate Housewives, I don't recommend it (or at least,
if you find a SVN that's stable for you, don't change unless you really
need to).


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