[mythtv-users] New theme: Monochrome

Jan Hambrecht jaham at gmx.net
Thu Jan 5 11:21:32 UTC 2017


Am 05.01.2017 um 11:54 schrieb Paul Harrison:
> On 05/01/17 10:21, Stuart Auchterlonie wrote:
>> On 04/01/17 19:27, jaham at gmx.net wrote:
>>>
>>> Ok, I have done that now. There is a fixes/0.27 and a fixes/0.28 
>>> branch which
>>> you can pull from. It would be great if you can add the theme to the 
>>> theme
>>> chooser.
>>> How does the theme chooser know there is a new version available. 
>>> Does it
>>> periodically pull from the repo and checks the version number in
>>> themeinfo.xml?
>>
>> The theme chooser pulls some data from our services site with all the
>> metadata about the themes and their download location.
>>
>> On the mythtv project server, there is a job which polls the relevant
>> repos daily and packages up the themes and makes them available for
>> download.
>>
>>
>> Regards
>> Stuart
>>
>
> So if you commit some changes to one of your branches that version of 
> your theme would get repackaged with the updates. If you didn't bump 
> the version in themeinfo.xml then only new users of your theme would 
> get the updates because they would download the new packaged version. 
> So if you want existing users to be prompted there is a new version 
> available as well you have to bump the version in themeinfo.xml. At 
> least that is the way I believe it works.
>
> It's entirely up to you how you manage the version but it's best not 
> to keep bumping it for every minor change but to do one bump at the end.
>
> IIRC the script to update the themes runs twice a day at 4pm and 4am GMT.
>
> Paul H. 

Thanks to both of you for the info. The part about the user being 
prompted for a theme update (after a version bump in themeinfo.xml) was 
what I wanted to know, but failed to express correctly in my question.

Ciao Jan


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