[ANNOUNCE] VDR maintenance patch 1.4.1-2

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Stefan Huelswitt wrote:
> On 23 Jul 2006 Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> VDR maintenance patch 1.4.1-2 is now available at
> [...]
>> This version is binary compatible to the previous version, so plugins
>> don't need to be recompiled.
> [...]
>> - Fixed handling relative volume settings in the call to cStatus::MsgSetVolume()
>>    (reported by Norbert Wentz).
> 
> I think that this definitely changes compatibility for plugins
> using MsgSetVolume() between 1.4.1-1 & 1.4.1-2 (even if it was a
> bug, the plugin got the absolute volume value regardless of the
> absolute flag up to now, which now needs different handling). 
> 
> As there is no way to detect patch level from a preprocessor
> symbol, this change should had been reflected in API version.
> 
> (I'm somewhat clueless how I should handle this for mplayer plugin
> in a backward compatible way)

No problem, I'll increase the APIVERSION for the final release.

Just wondering why all the plugins have silently adjusted
themselves to the bug for such a long time without anybody
saying anything... ;-)

Klaus


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