On 27.12.2012 13:21, VDR User wrote:
On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 10:20 AM, fnu vdr@auktion.hostingkunde.de 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,