[mythtv] an idea from ruby on rails

[Simon Kenyon]

On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 08:24 +0000, Simon Kenyon wrote:
> i was thinking that with a small amount of effort myth could implement 
> "downgrade the database" functionality in dbcheck.cpp.
> this would mainly be for people who are testing branches or who are 
> trying to find a regression by bisection of svn versions.
> 
> that is, for every db version, provide both upgrade and downgrade 
> functionality. that way, you could move between versions without all the 
> rigmarole (sp?) of messing around with mysql.
> 
> of course, this comes with no code, so may be ignored :-)

you all seems such sticklers on this list for not hijacking threads, so
i suppose i might ask what this all has to do with my original question?

when testing versions, the contents of the database is not really the
major concern.
and in any case, it is pretty rare that a change cannot be reversed. how
else would people test?

i'll cons up a patch and see what people think.
--
simon