Chris Petersen wrote:
I've been working on some changes to mythweb lately, and wanted to run
them by you all. My goal is to add support for mythweb themes that use
AJAX. (there's a good description of AJAX at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AJAX if you're unfamiliar with it)
At least the recorded programs page already does this.
Yeah, I'm still on 18.1. I'm guessing that's in a newer version?
I'll get the latest and take a look.
Yup. Except that passing "large" stuff by reference shouldn't be all
that slow. I agree that it's a bad idea for a lot of stuff, though.
I was more concerned with the time it takes to rebuild that data
structure on each access.
Here's why I haven't been accepting large mythweb patches recently (and
why I haven't done much developing)..
* Primarily, I've been working on my house and my yard (since it was
summer)...
* Lately, I'm suffering/recovering from a repetitive-stress type
arm/shoulder injury and try to stay away from the computer as much as
possible while at home. Such is life, but I'd rather heal now than
live with this for the rest of my life.
* I'm working on a major rewrite of how my programs are architected
(see https://svn.forevermore.net/cooktools/ for pieces). Until I get
this in place, I won't accept any core updates to mythweb, and
anything you write against the current tree won't work once I make
the updates.
There are a handful of things I *will* accept patches for:
* Mythweb's "video" section (it sucks, I didn't write it, I want it to
be rewritten or go away, but I don't use mythvideo so I'm not the one
to rewrite it.
* Mythweb's "music" section (same as above)
* "search" type recording profiles (I should have put these in ages
ago, but still haven't found the time to do so)
I'm sorry to hear about your injury. With regard to the other issues, do
you have a timeframe for when you plan to have the rewrite you talked
about done? I've been having fun delving into this, so I suppose I'm
chomping at the bit, so to speak.
Portions of mythweb are getting relicensed or dual-licensed as LGPL so
that I can share code with work (eg. includes/db.php and all javascript
code) -- meaning Silicon Mechanics employees (we'll be 3 coders in a
couple of weeks) will officially contribute at least small portions of
code to MythWeb, but the only way I can do this is if the code is
licensed in such a way that the company can benefit, too. My reading of
the GPL, especially version 3, won't allow this, and if I accept many
changes to files that are currently 100% my work (I can provice an
exclusive license for any of my code), it will move into a legal grey
area that I don't want to deal with.
What's the process for relicensing? Is it just a matter of getting
agreement between the parties involved then slapping the new license in
the files? Is there dissent about doing this?
*If* someone wants to help with this major rewrite, I'm open to help,
but as I'm not entirely finished with the design ideas yet, there will
be a lot of conversation needed. Contact me on irc if you want to talk
about it.
Ok. Will do. Where do I find you on IRC?
Thanks, Chris!
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