[mythtv-users] Asking before upgrading the schema

[Greg Estabrooks]

> Is there some reason why Myth doesn't -ASK- first?  If someone
> submitted a patch to make it ask, would it be accepted?

 Noone is going to "pre accept" code. Write it, submit it. If the
code is clean, provides a useful function then it has a high chance of being
accepted. The exact same rules that apply to all submitted patches.

 Personally I can see where what you describe is handy BUT you have to consider
the whole picture.

 A Gui popup if they are running a frontend to warn them, and exit if they 
don't update. And a text popup or command flag if they are running a 
backend since lots of backends are headless and or just don't have a 
gui running.

 With either of those for the backend you have to factor in 
the people who wont run it manually the first time after installing 
the new version. Those who start the backend via a script and who 
would not even see the popup/warning. So they end up not updating the 
database and having problems, OR they put the commandflag in the initscript
"for convenience and ease of use" and basically end up back where we are now.


 Work out all of that and submit some code and people can start testing/banging
away on it.