[vdr] Re: addign STB-style timeshifting to VDR

["Jean-Claude Repetto" <jrepetto@francenet.fr>]

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From: "Carsten Koch" <Carsten.Koch@icem.de>
To: <vdr@linuxtv.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 11:09 AM
Subject: [vdr] Re: addign STB-style timeshifting to VDR


> Anton Schegg wrote:
> >
> > I agree with Klaus. Keep it simple.
>
> So do I.
> On many occasions in the past I have noticed that Klaus and
> I seem to think alike.
> Pushing new features in at maximum speed makes the product
> not only more powerful, but also less reliable and more complex.
> More complex to use and more complex to maintain.
> In the software I develop I often go even beyond Klaus'
> approach: I make checks in regular intervals asking myself:
> What could be removed to reduce complexity?
> What could be simplified just to make things easier to maintain?
>

I think a good way to reduce complexity would be to change the software
architecture.
It has been proposed more than one year ago by Michael Fiegert :
http://linuxtv.org/mailinglists/linux-dvb/2000/09-2000/msg00268.html