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[vdr] Re: Generic input device / event support for VDR?



On Friday 29 August 2003 20:38, Steffen Barszus wrote:
> Am Freitag, 29. August 2003 20:26 schrieben Sie:
> > On Wednesday 27 August 2003 19:59, Steffen Barszus wrote:
> > > Am Freitag, 29. August 2003 16:14 schrieben Sie:
> > > > On Wednesday 27 August 2003 19:04, Steffen Barszus wrote:
> > > > > Am Freitag, 29. August 2003 15:21 schrieben Sie:
> > > >
> > > > ...
> > > > This piece of code was for the lirc interface of the old 0.9.4
> > > > driver. When I created the plugin, vdr (iirc 1.1.13) could use
> > > > both old and new drivers. I think I'll drop this stuff in the
> > > > next release. Probably I was the only one who used it, anyway.
> > > > ;-)
> > >
> > > In its current way i agree to drop that. Could it be updated to the
> > > lircd interface vdr uses ? This way vdr could be compiled with
> > > NOKBD and without REMOTE=LIRC, and the wished input method could be
> > > choosen by your plugin.
> >
> > The code from lirc.[ch] could be easily incorporated.
> > But why should a plugin duplicate code of the vdr core?
> > This would only make sense if Klaus wants to remove this feature from
> > core vdr...
> >
> 
> Nope. I think about how vdr could be saned packaged and well integrated 
> in a normal distro. This means as less compiling as possible. With 
> REMOTE=LIRC you will 'get everytime an error on startup. With no input 
> method compiled in and using the plugin to have it configurable , it 
> sounds to me to be a very nice solution. 

From a package builder's point of view this might be nice to have.
Right now there are still bugs waiting to be fixed.
Therefore, such nice-to-have features have low priority.
Anyway, I'll consider that for the 0.2.0 release.

Oliver


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