[mythtv] Intro and Mythweb

[Isaac Richards]

On Tuesday 01 November 2005 10:53 am, Kevin Kuphal wrote:
> I suppose.  You could show benefit from the caching mechanisms and I
> think in our case, the code reuse between frontend platforms is an
> excellent opportunity for improvement, especially with projects like
> MythWeb, MythRoku, MythMVP and others coming online.
>
> Making the protocol more inclusive by adding additional commands does
> not disallow direct DB access by the frontend, but provides a standard
> mechanism for other frontends to speak to the backend, especially for
> platforms where MySQL access is unavailable or undesired.

I've never understood why the mysql client library would be 'undesired'.  It's 
pretty tiny.  

Regardless, once I write a simple server app, there will be no more mysql, and 
it will be easy to add additional queries without the trip through the 
backend process.

Isaac