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You said everything that needed to be said, I agree with you 100 % I vote for the merging of multiproto. Met vriendelijke groeten, Jelle De Loecker Kipdola Studios - Tomberg VDR User schreef: After some consideration, I can not ack this new api proposal. I believe a lot of the support for it is based in people not knowing the current state of multiproto and thinking this might be the only path to new needed drivers. It hasn't helped that there has been some misinformation spread such as the binary compatibility and so on. There is a current pull request for multiproto right now and if done, drivers could start being developed right now. In the end that's what matters to users, especially those of us who've been patiently waiting several months or even years. To my knowledge the multiproto api is very robust and can be easily updated to accommodate new modulations, etc. From a technical standpoint, I can't justify disregarding all the work thats been done on multiproto, especially when it's finally ready to go. In Mauro's own response to the pull request, he admits the multiproto code is complete. Unless someone can provide legitimate reasons why we should wait for yet another api to be written when multiproto is (finally) ready to be pulled now, I'm afraid I can't support the idea. People have been waiting to move forward with a new api for a long time and it seems we can with multiproto right now, today. I don't agree that makes a very strong case of too little, too late. Whether it's openly admitted or not, I think we're mostly all aware that there is some personal politics involved in this as well, which is unfortunate. Hopefully people will be mature enough to put that aside and do what's best for us, the linux dvb user base, as a whole. After learning that multiproto is ready and there's no technical reason against it, I wonder how many people still choose to wait for another api to be written..? Best regards guys! |
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