[mythtv-users] Backend status?

[Karl Newman]

On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 6:05 PM, Gary Buhrmaster <gary.buhrmaster at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 12:36 AM, Bill Meek <keemllib at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 09/19/2014 07:14 PM, Thomas Boehm wrote:
> >>
> >> On 20/09/14 00:05, Mark Perkins wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Maybe? My understanding is that mythweb is going to get replaced, just
> a
> >>> question of time.
> >>
> >>
> >> Replaced by what? However you call it, I hope it will have the same
> >> functionality as mythweb has. I never schedule recordings in
> >> mythfrontend for instance and would miss that functionality the most.
> >
> >
> > WebFrontend, the backend webserver based feature. And, yes it
> > already has the ability to schedule recordings. It's available
> > in 0.28-pre and works will for me.
>
> I am going to reference people to a ticket response
> about a month ago.  While the wording may not be
> perfect, I believe it covers the essentials (and blame
> me for the bad wording, not the devs).
>
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/commits/574585#574585
>
> Note an important point made was that if no one commits
> to updating MythWeb for the 0.28 changes (and no one
> has to this point), only the WebFrontend may be part of
> the release (with MythWeb failing spectacularly if one
> tries to run the old code with the new database formats).
>

I've submitted a few bug fix and improvement patches to mythweb and I'm
pretty familiar with its code (submitted another bug fix yesterday, in
fact). I'm interested in having mythweb's functionality continue, whether
it's incorporated into the internal web server or whatever. I might pick
away at the upgrade but I'm not in a position to commit to anything. I'm
not set up to run a development system so any upgrade work would need to be
done "blind" or after my home system is updated to a release version of
mythtv 0.28.

What are the significant database changes in 0.28? I seem to recall hearing
about at least one change which was de-duplicating some data and linking it
using a key instead, but I can't remember which tables or data it was
about. I guess if the PHP bindings are updated it might lessen the effort
to update mythweb.

Karl
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