<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 7 Jun 2023, at 6:51 pm, Gary Buhrmaster <<a href="mailto:gary.buhrmaster@gmail.com" class="">gary.buhrmaster@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta charset="UTF-8" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">On Wed, Jun 7, 2023 at 6:38 AM James Abernathy <</span><a href="mailto:jfabernathy@gmail.com" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">jfabernathy@gmail.com</a><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">> wrote:</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><blockquote type="cite" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">On Wed, Jun 7, 2023 at 6:19 AM Gary Buhrmaster <<a href="mailto:gary.buhrmaster@gmail.com" class="">gary.buhrmaster@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class="">On Wed, May 31, 2023 at 8:20 PM Peter Bennett <<a href="mailto:pb.mythtv@gmail.com" class="">pb.mythtv@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">There are instructions for developers that include the precise software<br class="">versions we are using, at <a href="https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/WebApp_Development" class="">https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/WebApp_Development</a> .<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">The project has previously stated that ansible<br class="">is the proper way to install the development<br class="">environment.<br class=""><br class="">Now that you have stated that you have<br class="">decided not to support that (i.e. you are<br class="">choosing to abandon it for manual<br class="">instructions), I guess I will stop my<br class="">occasional PR's to update ansible. I<br class="">guess you will also be updating the wiki<br class="">to no longer recommend ansible now<br class="">that you have decided otherwise.<br class=""><br class="">Thanks for the update!<br class=""><br class=""></blockquote><br class="">Dumb question for the peanut gallery. I know ansible is used when building from source to install all the mythtv dependencies. It seems to be up to date for most distros I use.<br class=""><br class="">It seems that any additional packages needed to compile/build the addition of the web app would need to be included in the ansible playbook for mythtv.<br class=""><br class="">Did I miss something?<br class=""></blockquote><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">Peter said that you don't use ansible, you</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">now follow the instructions on the wiki.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">That is a change in recommended practice.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>Peter it is meet and right that a developer, especially one making a signifiant contribution, should use whatever tools that they fancy.</div><div>Debian is anal about non-foss. I, and I guess that many folk here, am anal about the Borg. So having Visual Studio as a development requirement is a great pity: It means I will never build, and depending on the run environment may never use the tool.</div><div>James </div><br class=""></body></html>