[mythtv-users] [OT] Study proves skipping commercials make TV less enjoyable

Brad Templeton brad+myth at templetons.com
Wed Jan 28 09:35:22 UTC 2009


On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 11:29:09PM -0500, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> Why didn't you update it to -fixes rather than running a pre-0.21 trunk  
> version for so long?  Trunk from prior to the 0.21 release updates to  
> 0.21-fixes nicely.
>
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/356880#356880
>
> actually, anything using DB schema version 1214 or below will make the  
> transition:
>
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/362987#362987
>
> Mike

Standard upgrade fear.  Something always breaks with upgrades.
Ok, not always, but often enough that you need something to push
you.  I wasn't tracking all changes in the fixes release.  These
mailing lists are volumnious and you can't track them all the time
just to be a user!   (Does somebody do an RSS feed of "important
news" in the myth world, key new features, major fixes, stability
points, but not minor details?)

Anyway, I upgraded the server to a newer system and had mysql 5.1
so I figured I would upgrade myth, since I had stopped upgrading
after they abandoned mysql3.

And yes, things broke.  x11colors.cpp would not compile without turning
off optimization.  Had to purge old libraries to get many things
to work.  New dependencies. 

And of course, 0.22 really is mostly about qt4 and the new ui, not about
new functionality.   I was almost going to revert until I got 1394
working again.  I do miss audio speed-up, which fails badly over
spdif output right now.   And my own tvwish patches no longer work,
I have to redo them.

I suppose if I get some more time to work on Myth, I would make many
friends if I made the protocol portable, so that they don't have to
change the protocol version number so frequently.  Then you could
run play with the svn releases without having to upgrade every single
system you have so they can talk to one another.  (This would be a lot
of work, and all coders would now have to deal with the possiblity of
talking to an older or newer backend, with some fields in programinfo
and other structures filled in with defaults etc.)




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