On 27.12.2012 13:21, VDR User wrote: > On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 10:20 AM, fnu <vdr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> ... there are way too much changes at the moment :) > > > > FullAck, but the number of changes are not the issue, it's more the > > sustainability and the time frame within the changes. Looking to the last 5 > > versions, each of them do look allmost like a complete new version. There is > > allmost no time for other developers (plugins, addons and distros) to react > > to them and the worse, they don't now if their work is valid for the next > > vdr developer version. If you want to stop any development around VDR, go > > ahead like this ... > > Keep in mind, all these changes are occurring in the _developer_ > version of VDR, not stable. If package maintainers choose to use > developer rather than stable versions, they should expect things like > this. Maybe the problem isn't the changes, it's that they've picked > the wrong version to work with. Just a thought. When software advances at glacial speeds(*) reality tends compensate for that over time. See the permanent "Beta"-marking that many Google-Services tended to have in the past. *: The timestamp of the 1.6.0 release (a.k.a. vdr-current.tar.bz2) on ftp.tvdr.de is: 23.03.2008, -- Matthias _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
