On Tuesday 22 February 2005 12:58 pm, Joe Barnhart wrote: > --- Isaac Richards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > All a release is is a snapshot of cvs at the time of > > the release. Nothing > > more. I make no guarantees as to its stability. > > And that is a real problem for those who are trying to > extend the reach of MythTv with packaged > distributions. KnoppMyth is the best ally you ever > had because it makes it far easier to get a Myth box > up and running. But without SOME committment to > producing a stable release you just cut the legs out > from under it.
Axel doesn't seem to have any problems occasionally pulling select patches from CVS to fix things in his RPMs. What's so different about KnoppMyth? If you care about this bug so much, pull out the fix from CVS and stick it in the patch list of the debs for KnoppMyth. As it only affects a tiny minority of people, I honestly don't see the point of me spending my time on it any more than I already have. > Of all the open-source projects I deal with, MythTv is > unique in this regard. All other projects I use and > participate in try to come up with a stable, > relatively bug free release from time to time. They > freeze feature sets on a date and then allow some time > for testing. Yes, it slows down development for a few > weeks, but it results in happier users. Guess you should have tested CVS before the release (which was announced a couple weeks ahead of time), then, or participated in the discussion where this change was made. Isaac _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
