[mythtv] Backwards compatibility

[David Engel]

On Wed, Jan 06, 2016 at 06:59:12PM +0000, Paul Harrison wrote:
> It's kind of telling the only replies you got are from non developers who
> don't have to maintain this :)

You noticed that too!

On Thu, Jan 07, 2016 at 08:28:53AM +1100, Jean-Yves Avenard wrote:
> The more correct way to do so IMHO would be to stop having front ends
> directly connect to the MySQL database and instead go via the backend. So
> that way we don't have to rely on a schema at all.

Right.  As long as all components access the database directly, a lot
of compatibility support will be hard and fraught with peril.  I don't
think we have any chance of doing it well until all database access is
exclusively done throught the master backend.  That means everything
else has to use the Myth protocol, or even better, the services API
through the master.

David
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