[mythtv-users] Notice to Schedules Direct users

[Thomas Mashos]

On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 10:52 AM, Mike Perkins
<mikep at randomtraveller.org.uk> wrote:
> 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
>
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You mean the MythTV plugins that are created and sanctioned by the
MythTV developers and live in the official MythTV github repositories?

-- 
Thanks,

Thomas Mashos