[mythtv-users] What's appropriate to use/distribute in MythTV

David Brodbeck gull at gull.us
Thu May 21 19:19:30 UTC 2009


Daniel Kristjansson wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-05-21 at 10:34 -0700, David Brodbeck wrote:
>> To me this looks like essentially an interim problem.  It happened 
>> because the appearance of several new and exciting hardware devices 
>> coincided with the Myth developers' decision to rip apart trunk to 
>> switch to a new toolkit.
> 
> I concur on both points. In our defence we decided to rip apart trunk
> and port to two new toolkits a some months before the exciting new
> hardware devices appeared.

Yeah, I shouldn't have implied that those things happened at precisely 
the same time.

It just gives me a little shudder down my spine when "let's break all 
the code so we can port to a new API" decisions get made.  It always 
reminds me of Duke Nukem Forever, where repeated decisions to port to 
new engines caused the ship data to slip later and later, until it 
eventually reached infinity...



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