[mythtv-users] [old] Re: XvMC and libmpeg2 to be dropped in 0.25

[Nick Rout]

On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 2:38 AM, Ryan Patterson <ryan.goat at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 6:46 AM, Brian J. Murrell <brian at interlinx.bc.ca> wrote:
>> My comment was that that it's impossible to leave one (say) FE in a myth
>> network at a version that works well for it and provides the needed
>> hardware support when you need to upgrade another machine in the myth
>> network to get hardware support for newer hardware simply because one
>> has to always upgrade all machines due to myth refusing any sort of
>> back/for-ward protocol compatibility.
>
> Yes you have to choose one version of MythTV for your entire network
> of frontends and backends.  That seems to only make sense.  Can you
> swap a different design of engine block into your car without also
> changing the heads and manifolds?  No, all those things must match
> each other.
>
>> I wonder why so many other software projects don't seem to have any
>> problem with this protocol compatibility between various releases and
>> yet myth needs to be sooooo rigid.
>
> Can you name one of these other software projects you are talking
> about?  And before you respond please ask yourself, "why am I using
> MythTV instead of this other project?"  That might highlight the fact
> these other projects are really not comparable to MythTV.

Yes, firefox works with many versions of apache, and indeed many other
web server "backends"