[mythtv] Is DB/XMLTV really a requirement?

[Mr. Adam ALLEN]

On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 07:12, Erik Arendse wrote:
> At 22-1-03 18:38, Patrick.Debois wrote:
> >just wondering. For a lot of countries no information exist within XMLTV.
> >I have a lot of stuff really installed for mplayer and so on. But i don't
> >see the need for a database. Maybe for the user recordings but therefore a
> >simple txt/xml file could be used? It would give a lot of user a more
> >out-of-the-box experience (i.e. they want have to setup a Mysql db and
> >administrate it ...)
> 

A project which I've just worked on needed lots of CPAN dependencies and
other packages- I ended up coming up with a shell script so that a
"Windows" user could handle installs onto other boxes.

The specific need was systems that were installed as a Personal Desktop
could be brought up to speed with the required packages to build
software, run MySQL etc.
 
 - It checks a users system for a particular binary using the which cmd
 - Checks for missing rpms and installs them (only redhat 8.0/mandrake9)
 - Any none distribution packages are dragged from sourceforge mirrors,
or a different website and uncompressed and built.
 - can then take care of configuration (enabling mysql to boot, adding
the sql for the mythtv tables)

If this is wanted for MythTV I could generate a shell script for when
MythTV 8.0 is released.


Although if packages exist then this is less of a need, especially if
users can read the documentation.

-- 
Regards,
Adam Allen.

adam at dynamicinteraction.co.uk
pgp http://search.keyserver.net:11371/pks/lookup?op=vindex&search=adam%40dynamicinteraction.co.uk

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