Re: [RFC] Initial scan files troubles and brainstorming

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On 01/10/13 20:04, Manu Abraham wrote:
On 1/11/13, Michael Krufky <mkrufky@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 1:46 PM, Manu Abraham <abraham.manu@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
On 1/11/13, Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 01/10/2013 06:40 PM, Manu Abraham wrote:
On 1/9/13, Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Em Wed, 9 Jan 2013 06:08:44 -0500
Michael Krufky <mkrufky@xxxxxxxxxxx> escreveu:

On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 5:41 AM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab
<mchehab@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Em Wed, 09 Jan 2013 10:43:23 +0100
Oliver Schinagl <oliver+list@xxxxxxxxxxx> escreveu:

On 08-01-13 21:01, Johannes Stezenbach wrote:
On Mon, Jan 07, 2013 at 01:48:29PM +0100, Oliver Schinagl wrote:
On 07-01-13 11:46, Jiri Slaby wrote:
On 12/18/2012 11:01 PM, Oliver Schinagl wrote:
Unfortunatly, I have had zero replies.
Hmm, it's sad there is a silence in this thread from linux-media
guys :/.
In their defense, they are very very busy people ;) chatter on
this
thread does bring it up however.
This is such a nice thing to say :-)
But it might be that Mauro thinks the dvb-apps maintainer should
respond, but apparently there is no dvb-apps maintainer...
Maybe you should ask Mauro directly to create an account for you
to implement what you proposed.
Mauro is CC'ed and I'd ask of course for this (I kinda did) but who
decides what I suggested is a good idea? I personally obviously
think
it
is ;) and even more so if dvb-apps are unmaintained.

I guess the question now becomes 'who okay's this change? Who says
'okay, lets do it this way. Once that is answered we can go from
there
;)

If I understood it right, you want to split the scan files into a
separate
git tree and maintain it, right?

I'm ok with that.

Regards,
Mauro

As a DVB maintainer, I am OK with this as well - It does indeed make
sense to separate the c code sources from the regional frequency
tables, and I'm sure we'll see much benefit from this change.

Done. I created a tree for Oliver to maintain it and an account for
him.
I also created a new tree with just the DVB table commits to:
     http://git.linuxtv.org/dtv-scan-tables.git

I kept there both szap and scan files, although maybe it makes sense
to
drop the szap table (channels-conf dir). It also makes sense to drop
the
tables from the dvb-apps tree, to avoid duplicated stuff, and to avoid

Being one of the maintainers:

I will keep the tables in the dvb-apps tree for the time being.

That does not make sense at all -- why? Duplicated stuff always hurts.


The scan files and config files are very specific to dvb-apps, some
applications
do rely on these config files. It doesn't really make sense to have
split out config
files for these  small applications.



Will decide to
drop the config files as needed from dvb-apps. It is necessary to keep
a
copy of the config files for development purposes, rather than pulling
from
different trees.

What development purposes, could you be more specific? You can still use
git submodules if really needed. But as it stands I do not see a reason
for that at all...


Did you think that the dvb-apps just came out of thin air ?

development of dvb-applications, implies eventually config files also
will be updated as necessary. Having them in separate repositories
makes such work harder for working.
while working with dvb-apps, it would make things saner if it is the
same SCM, rather
than having different SCM's. So according to you, you want to make it
still harder for someone to work with dvb-apps.


Manu

Manu,

I see great value in separating the history of the data files from the
code files.  If you really think this is such a terrible task for a
developer to have to pull from a second repository to fetch these data
files, then I find no reason why we couldn't script it such that
building the dvb-apps package would trigger the pull from the
additional repository.

I think that's a fair compromise.


  As someone who has long been working with dvb-apps, I see no value
in this, but just pain altogether. For people who have never worked with it,
they can say anything what they want, which makes no sense at all.
Well there are a few apps that do use the initial scanfile tree, but do not use any of the dvb-apps.

(tvheadend, kaffeine appearantly, i'm guessing VDR and MythTV aswell?)


Meanwhile, your argument is for developers.  Developers can handle
pulling from a separated tree for data files who shouldn't be clouding
the history of source code development, anyway.  Developers are indeed
used to dealing with multiple repositories, and if any developer
isn't, then now is the time to get with the program!


It isn't that way. Users have to deal with 2 repositories as well. Anyway,
the repository is not having that many developers to state that developers
can handle all the burden. It is just but the reverse.
Well one of the biggest issues was, that the scanfiles where ill maintained and projects where working around those shortcommings.

The scanfiles are technically unrelated. They are data files, facts and can very logically live seperated :) Having commit messages pure for data files in a source tree just looks off.

They simply have become a seperate entity as people (not developers) depend on them. (Yes there is wscan of course).

Also, purely out of curiousity, how are the scanfiles used during development?

oliver


Manu
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