[mythtv-users] Record on Backend, Watch LiveTV on Frontend?

[Joseph A. Caputo]

I don't see that allowing 'frontend' type clients to access the database
directly causes that big of a dependency problem.  You already have a Qt
dependency; is it that much of a problem to make sure you have mysql support
in your Qt installation (and possibly the run-time mysql libraries??)  You
don't need the entire MySQL distribution (server, client progs & *-devel
packages) on the frontend (I think), only on the backend.  And yes, of
course it makes sense to have a single repository for settings and such.  I
wasn't implying otherwise.  It's just that, it seems overkill to require a
separate backend application and custom protocol even for small applications
to be able to access their data repository.  Do you really need to have
mythweather-backend just so mythweather-frontend can find out its default
weather station setting?  Or, even if you built a generic protocol into
mythbackend, so that all frontend apps would pass DB queries through it...
that just introduces a runtime dependency on all the frontend apps that the
mythbackend must be running for them to work.  That's the whole point of
having a network-capable database engine; you don't need to reinvent the
wheel.

-Joe C.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at snowman.net
> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at snowman.net]On Behalf Of John Kelley
> Sent: Friday, April 11, 2003 10:23 AM
> To: 'Discussion about mythtv'
> Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] Record on Backend, Watch LiveTV on Frontend?
>
>
> Why? It makes sense to have one central storage place for conifguration
> information and what _little_ data anything needs stored. Having things
> in multiple places (computers) will increase the number of questions
> from people who are new to this; "Oh, now that I want to install
> MythWeather || Myth* I have to install mysql on my frontend too?", "What
> machine is the configuration for that stored on again?", ad inifinitum.
> You're barking up the wrong tree here. Also mythmusic *does* have a
> backend, albeit it may not be the myth backend... It has to get its
> files from somewhere.
>
> 	- John
>