[mythtv-users] **NOTE**: MythSystem Rewrite

[Nick Rout]

On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 6:44 PM, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com> wrote:
> On 1/2/2011 00:40, Nick Rout wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 5:40 PM, Gavin Hurlbut<gjhurlbu at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>> I have just merged our rewrite of myth_system() into master on git.
>>> It likely will have some minor issues remaining, but it has been
>>> tested as much as we can so far.
>>>
>>> ***PLEASE*** before submitting any tickets:
>>> 1) be sure to have done a make distclean.  This is a fairly large change.
>>> 2) if you need to report a problem, go to:
>>> http://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/9421.  If your problem has already
>>> been reported, do NOT add a "me too".  If your particular problem has
>>> not been reported, please report it in that ticket.
>>> 3) to debug, I will need logs from the backend and/or frontend
>>> (whereever the problem is).  Please attach them as files on the
>>> ticket, not paste them inline.
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>
>> Just for those of us who are interested, but not coders and not
>> running master, what is the significance of this - I assume it IS
>> significant, but most of us probably don't even know what
>> myth_system() does :)
>>
>> But all of us sure are interested in knowing what is coming along in myth.
>
> The significance of this is that this is a significant rewrite of the
> handling of every external executable call in MythTV.  While completely
> transparent to the non-programming user, it is likely to cause unexpected
> bugs in the code.  This is just a notice of possible problems for anyone
> running trunk, but not subscribed to the development mailing list and not
> watching the commit logs.

OK, interesting if not immediately useful to me :)

Seems like a central part of the myth code being re-written, which I
guess can only be positive (once you sort any resulting bugs). Nice to
see the development going on :)

We all appreciate the effort.