<p>Thx all for the help</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">> On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 3:57 PM, Raymond Wagner <<a href="mailto:raymond@wagnerrp.com">raymond@wagnerrp.com</a>> wrote:<br>>> On 9/6/2010 01:26, Robert Johnston wrote:<br>>>><br>
>>> On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 23:12, Raymond Wagner<<a href="mailto:raymond@wagnerrp.com">raymond@wagnerrp.com</a>> wrote:<br>>>>><br>>>>> On 9/6/2010 00:30, Overlord wrote:<br>>>>>><br>
>>>>> I'm looking to make an htpc using xbmc and mythbox<br>>>>>><br>>>>> Please reconsider this. The 'mythbox' scripts ignore the database schema<br>>>>> versioning, and XBMC bypasses the backend protocol checks.<br>
>>><br>>>> XBMC's built-in support uses the (well maintained) libcmyth library as<br>>>> a base, doing what it can to use version-specific calls to myth's<br>>>> ever-changing interface, and conforming to the Myth backend protocol<br>
>>> as much as possible, even going so far as to maintain a whole slew of<br>>>> protocol options to remain compatible with older backend protocols.<br>>><br>>> The last protocol update libcmyth got was for revision 44 almost a year and<br>
>> a half ago. That means it has not been maintained since before the 0.22<br>>> release. Since then, there have been changes to the current protocol that<br>>> will break it. The fact that it sets no upper bounds, and will happily<br>
>> connect to any future version of mythbackend, is a very dangerous thing.<br>>><br>>> The same goes for the raw database access it and 'mythbox' performs with no<br>>> checks on database schemas.<br>
> <br>> Sam, check out mythbox, it's been given compatibility with protocol 57<br>> (and there's a patch in their queue for 58) - which suggests it's been<br>> tested and it works!<br>> <br>> Besides - if Sam uses mythweb for scheduling mythbox only reads from<br>
> the database.<br>> <br>> Good luck Sam - but I suspect you'll be more welcome on the xbmc<br>> forums. Nothing to do with me, just that some people here don't like<br>> the idea of xbmc talking to myth.<br>
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