On 3/3/06, <b class="gmail_sendername"><a href="mailto:mythtv@zacglen.com.au">mythtv@zacglen.com.au</a></b> <<a href="mailto:mythtv@zacglen.com.au">mythtv@zacglen.com.au</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">>No idea what the point of starting this thread was but at least reading<br>>Chris Pinkham's reply did crack me up :)
<br>><br><br>The point is that MythTV is bloated bug-ridden software which<br>mostly just duplicates the functionality of a browser.<br><br>Do the math - 112,792 lines vs a probable 3000 lines of Perl.<br><br><br>
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Obviously, mythtv@zacglen is a pain in the ass.<br>
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I am little curious about some points he raised (however idiotic his
choice of words may have been). Theoretically speaking, if one
were to start with a clean slate, do some of this guy's suggestions
make
sense? What I was able to gather from this and the other
thread (<a href="http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/185962">http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/185962</a>) are:<br>
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(Note: I am not making any judgements on technology choices and I am
not even qualified to do so; I'm just asking for the sake of my own
learning.)<br>
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1. Use a browser as the UI framework instead of QT<br>
2. Use files instead of database for settings and guide/recording data<br>
3. He says something about "the recording format can be whatever anyone chooses"<font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="#660066">
</font></font></font> -- not sure what he means<br>
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And, of course, he seems to prefer Perl but that's a religious war I don't care about.<br>
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I'd be curious to hear what the devs think about this, just as an intellectual exercise.<br>