On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 7:08 PM, Artem Makhutov <artem@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 02:29:30PM -0400, Steven Toth wrote: >> Regarding the multiproto situation: >> >> A number of developers, maintainers and users are unhappy with the >> multiproto situation, actually they've been unhappy for a considerable >> amount of time. The linuxtv developer community (to some degree) is seen >> as a joke and a bunch in-fighting people. Multiproto is a great >> demonstration of this. [1] The multiproto project has gone too far, for >> too long and no longer has any credibility in the eyes of many people. > > Can you please explain me what you do not like in multiproto? > > I can only see the two issues right now: > > 1. Binary incompatibility > > As the DVB-API was not developed to work with advanced modulations like > DVB-S2 an API change is a must. As soon multiproto is in kernel the > distros and application maintainer will patch their applications to work > with multiproto. Let me clear this up. There isn't any binary incompatibility. If you need the newer modulations/delivery systems, then you need to recompile the application for the newer systems. Binary compatibilty exists completely with the old API. Even if you add in newer delivery systems/modulations later (with the API update), as the size of the data structures do not change, there doesn't occur any binary incompatibility Regards, Manu _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
