[mythtv] Extra column user-ID in MythTV

Isaac Richards ijr at po.cwru.edu
Fri Feb 14 08:07:42 EST 2003


On Friday 14 February 2003 04:20 am, Erik Arendse wrote:
> Hi Isaac & All,
>
> Seems your private mailbox is overflowing and you are still following this
> list, and as I'd like to raise some fellow-European support or suggestions
> I'll just repeat my previous mail verbatim at the end.
>
> I also noticed a 'Julian' sending a patch to this list, but as you didn't
> want any extra columns, his patch was against 0.7, and he left out the
> database stuff it will probably not be incorporated, am I right? The only
> response on the list was from Matt Zimmerman in suggesting to add a new
> column to the channel table, which is exactly what I want as well.
>
> Functionality like excluding certain channels from EPG and channel up/down
> could then even be implemented using the same channel by leaving the column
> empty for unwanted channels. In Europe we could enter a number to be used
> as a remote-button and sortorder ID, in the US as personal sortorder or
> just filled with something/nothing to mark included channels.

If it's done right, sure.  I didn't say I didn't want the extra column in the 
table, I said that Bjorn's patch was overly complicated and duplicated quite 
a bit of existing functionality.  I don't have time to clean it up, so...

Isaac



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