[mythtv-users] About Python & Perl bindings

[Kirk Bocek]

On 12/15/2011 11:49 AM, Raymond Wagner wrote:
> On 12/15/2011 14:39, Kirk Bocek wrote:
>>
>> On 12/15/2011 11:33 AM, Raymond Wagner wrote:
>>> On 12/15/2011 14:30, Kirk Bocek wrote:
>>>> On 12/15/2011 11:15 AM, Kirk Bocek wrote:
>>>>> On 12/15/2011 11:04 AM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> a) give up on using the ancient, extremely-low-level,
>>>>>> requires-updating-scripts-using-them-after-MythTV-updates (even just
>>>>>> revision updates) Perl bindings and use the Python bindings
>>>>>> This isn't a dig toward the Perl bindings--they were just
>>>>>> never finished
>>>>> Really? Now just fess up to your true Python feelings and admit that you
>>>>> want to see all the Perl heretics burned at the stake. :)
>>>> Going back a couple of months, I see that it was Raymond Wagner and Eric
>>>> Sharkey who prompted me to use the Perl bindings when I posted a Perl
>>>> script here.
>>>>
>>>> If they're on-line, I'd like to see them step up to the plate here and
>>>> engage Mike regarding the current status of the Perl bindings.
>>> Engage how?
>> Unless I misread Mike's posting, he seem to feel very insecure using the
>> Perl bindings. I understood him to say there is very little
>> documentation because they are incomplete. You, on the other hand, said
>> I should be using them in my Perl scripts. Is Mike right? He feels they
>> get rewritten all the time.
>
> Looking back through my logs, I'm finding the tool you wrote for sharing
> the virtual channel tables between your Prime and standard HDHomeRuns.
> You used the DBI module directly, and manually defined the database
> access credentials in the script itself.  I suggested the Perl bindings
> just so that would be chosen automatically, either through parsing of
> the config.xml, or UPnP auto-discovery.
>
> For what it's worth, in that specific case, neither the Perl nor the
> Python bindings would provide much help.  Direct manipulation of the
> channel tables is not something commonly done, so there are no helper
> utilities or classes in either to make it easier to do so.

I've looked at some of the tools that use the bindings and you still 
need to "use DBI;" correct? So that's not wrong. So the only thing, as 
you said, it would provide, is the credentials. That, of course, would 
be no small thing.