[mythtv-users] Protocol mismatch problem and ongoing GUIcolours problem

[Alexander Fisher]

On 05/10/06, Steve Daniels <steve.p.daniels at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org [mailto:mythtv-users-
> > bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Isaac Richards
> > Sent: 03 October 2006 22:05
> > To: Discussion about mythtv
> > Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Protocol mismatch problem and ongoing
> > GUIcolours problem
> >
> > On Tuesday 03 October 2006 4:50 pm, Clyde Stubbs wrote:
> > > While attempting to solve my ongoing problem with wrong GUI colours
> > since
> > > installing 0.20 I upgraded to the latest ATrpms, to find that my front-
> > > and back-ends were disagreeing on the protocol version. Dropping back
> > > to earlier builds didn't immediately solve this, until I finally
> > realized
> > > that
> > >
> > > 1) The ATrpms builds are from the 0.20-fixes branch;
> > > 2) The 0.20-fixes include not only fixes but "enhancements" -
> > specifically
> > > a protocol version number increment
> >
> > It's a bug fix, not an enhancement.  There was a missing data field in the
> > server communication - and, despite how other people have said that this
> > is
> > an 'easy' problem to fix, I'm really not sure how to magically make
> > binaries
> > with older protocol versions send data that they normally wouldn't.
> >
> > Isaac
>
> A very hung over stevie is thinking that all people who made such statements
> or insinuations should publicly apologise!

OK, sorry, I'll put my hand up.  I insinuated that there may have been
a fix/workaround to the problem which didn't involve a protocol
change.  Also, the fix was certainly a fix and not an enhancement, but
it was made to a branch advertised as being stable which many would
agree made it an unfortunate situation to be in.

If the only configuration guaranteed to work is when the frontend and
backend are both at exactly the same svn revision, then I believe this
is also unfortunate since it introduces a requirement to either never
use packaged versions (always compile from source), or run the same
linux distribution on all your frontends and backends since not all
package maintainers will have included the same set of fixes.

Out of interest, was 0.19.1 not compatible with 0.19 and 0.18.1 not
compatible 0.18, I honestly can't remember.

Kind Regards,
Alex