[mythtv-users] Notice to Schedules Direct users

[Mike Perkins]

On 16/10/14 18:45, Gary Buhrmaster wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 5:16 PM, R. G. Newbury <newbury at mandamus.org> wrote:
> ....
>> WOW WOW WOW so much FUD
>>
>> The JSON grabber does NOT add any columns to ANY table.
>
>   ....
>
>> NO schemas will be broken by using the JSON grabber.
>
> I can understand that SD may not have experienced
> enterprise/data/database architects available to you
> in order to review your designs.  However, adding a
> table to an existing database that you do not "own"
> DOES break the schema for the application.  Some
> applications may happen to tolerate such breakage
> (and others not so much), but it unconscionable for
> a third party to depend on that tolerance.  And that
> is what an experienced architecture review would
> have identified.  And that is why the code was a
> good/interesting proof of concept, which demonstrated
> some important capabilities, and also why it was not
> appropriate for moving into production as is.
>
I'm in the UK so I'm just sitting back and watching this, but I have a small 
question: Don't the various mythtv plugins add tables to the mythconverg 
database? I always thought that was somewhat strange.

-- 

Mike Perkins