On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 11:45 AM, Udo Richter udo_richter@gmx.de wrote:
In any case this would be the biggest rewrite of major parts of VDR ever, with lots of breakage, total loss of plugin compatibility and very long development cycle.
It's not a small task, but I believe the end product will be well worth the effort. VDR has the benefit of having coder support. If people are willing (as I think they would be), one option to spread the workload could be Klaus assigning different portions to different contributors that would like to work on it. If Klaus is clear about what he wants and is in good communication with other coders, perhaps it could become more of a team effort with Klaus as team captain.. It's a lot of work but there's no reason it should take years to complete either. Especially if the design is well-thought out ahead of time.
As far as plugin breakage.. I would expect there to be some growing pains and plugin maintainers needing to fix/add support for this is just a necessary part of the progression. Keep in mind, people have been wishing for VDR to go this route for quite a while so even if it means extra work fixing plugins, I think you'll find more people welcoming this change than not.