[mythtv-users] Is Upgrading to SVN Worth The Trouble?

[Michael T. Dean]

On 06/04/2006 02:22 PM, Ivan Kowalenko wrote:

>Hello. I'm wondering if upgrading from 0.19 to the latest SVN is  
>worth the trouble?
>
>At the moment, I'm using a Celeron 600 as a back end with a PVR-150  
>and an ATI TV Wonder VE (which the system refuses to access). The  
>front end is an XBox. The current installation is using KnoppMyth  
>R5C7 and the common pre-configured, pre-compiled Xebian MythTV Disk  
>image (though I suppose I'd have to create a disk image from scratch  
>if I am going to upgrade to SVN).
>
>But, seeing as I'm not using HD, or have much of an OpenGL system to  
>tinker with, am I going to get much out of the SVN version at this  
>time? And it is at all stable?
>
>Thanks for all the help.
>

General rule of thumb:  If you have to ask, "Is it worth upgrading [to 
an unreleased development version]?" it's not.

I.e. if there's no pressing reason for the upgrade--bugs that affect you 
but have been fixed in SVN--and you're not planning to write new code 
for Myth, you're probably better off with the released versions.  
Remember, if you upgrade to SVN head, you're expected to start--and 
continue--to read -dev and -commits lists as long as you're running an 
unreleased version.  Otherwise, someone--quite possibly even me--will 
likely say, "Well, if you were reading the -dev and -commits lists, 
you'd know that..." when you ask a question about your version of Myth.

Mike