From: Dirk M. <di...@fr...> - 2015-12-04 08:23:38
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Hi, On 10/10/2015 09:27 PM, Hartmut Schäfer wrote: > before I begin, let me thank Dischi and all the people who else worked > on this project for their great work. I am using Freevo since 2004 > (starting with version 1.5.0, later switching to 1.5.3 and not upgrading > since then), and I am a big fan of it (and of Python). For me, there's > no alternative in simplicity, functionality and pragmatism. Thanks > This work turned into a far bigger project than I initially intended, > keeping me busy (with some interruptions) for almost two years now. I > was lucky that there were no commits during this time, so I wouldn't > have to address a moving target (although it's a pity that the community > seems to have moved away from Freevo; for me it's NOT dead as the patch > shows: it's ready now for another 10 years). > > The result of my work are the attached huge patch for Freevo and the one > for kaa (I'm not entirely sure if I crafted the kaa XML correctly > because I wrote my config_dvbstreamer.py by hand). I initially intended > to dissect the result of my work into separate patches for one issue > each before submitting, but as work progressed (you will note that I > have completely rewritten core parts of the recordserver), this became > increasingly difficult and finally impossible. I'm sorry for that, but > I'm sure that I have done a piece of solid work that can be taken as a > whole and will turn Freevo into a new release everyone will embrace. The > long development phase during which I increasingly used this > installation for productive recording caused a fair amount of testing to > be accomplished. I thus consider the result to be pretty stable now. > Although, nobody knows really... Did someone else test this and is this a good patch? Does old stuf still work and does it break someting he does not use? I'm using the Freevo 2 trunk so I cannot test this. If the patches are good, someone could put them into a pull request and I would merge them to github. > I would be glad if my patches were integrated into the freevo1 and kaa > projects. Thank you again for all your great work, and I hope you will > enjoy mine too. Looks like great work, too. If the 1.x users agree and create a pull request, I will merge it. Regards, Dischi -- Woodward's Law: A theory is better than its explanation. |