Re: [RFC] Initial scan files troubles and brainstorming

[Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>]

On 01/10/2013 06:40 PM, Manu Abraham wrote:
> On 1/9/13, Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com> wrote:
>> Em Wed, 9 Jan 2013 06:08:44 -0500
>> Michael Krufky <mkrufky@linuxtv.org> escreveu:
>>
>>> On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 5:41 AM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab
>>> <mchehab@redhat.com> wrote:
>>>> Em Wed, 09 Jan 2013 10:43:23 +0100
>>>> Oliver Schinagl <oliver+list@schinagl.nl> escreveu:
>>>>
>>>>> On 08-01-13 21:01, Johannes Stezenbach wrote:
>>>>>> On Mon, Jan 07, 2013 at 01:48:29PM +0100, Oliver Schinagl wrote:
>>>>>>> On 07-01-13 11:46, Jiri Slaby wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 12/18/2012 11:01 PM, Oliver Schinagl wrote:
>>>>>>>>> Unfortunatly, I have had zero replies.
>>>>>>>> Hmm, it's sad there is a silence in this thread from linux-media
>>>>>>>> guys :/.
>>>>>>> In their defense, they are very very busy people ;) chatter on this
>>>>>>> thread does bring it up however.
>>>>>> This is such a nice thing to say :-)
>>>>>> But it might be that Mauro thinks the dvb-apps maintainer should
>>>>>> respond, but apparently there is no dvb-apps maintainer...
>>>>>> Maybe you should ask Mauro directly to create an account for you
>>>>>> to implement what you proposed.
>>>>> Mauro is CC'ed and I'd ask of course for this (I kinda did) but who
>>>>> decides what I suggested is a good idea? I personally obviously think
>>>>> it
>>>>> is ;) and even more so if dvb-apps are unmaintained.
>>>>>
>>>>> I guess the question now becomes 'who okay's this change? Who says
>>>>> 'okay, lets do it this way. Once that is answered we can go from there
>>>>> ;)
>>>>
>>>> If I understood it right, you want to split the scan files into a
>>>> separate
>>>> git tree and maintain it, right?
>>>>
>>>> I'm ok with that.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Mauro
>>>
>>> As a DVB maintainer, I am OK with this as well - It does indeed make
>>> sense to separate the c code sources from the regional frequency
>>> tables, and I'm sure we'll see much benefit from this change.
>>
>> Done. I created a tree for Oliver to maintain it and an account for him.
>> I also created a new tree with just the DVB table commits to:
>> 	http://git.linuxtv.org/dtv-scan-tables.git
>>
>> I kept there both szap and scan files, although maybe it makes sense to
>> drop the szap table (channels-conf dir). It also makes sense to drop the
>> tables from the dvb-apps tree, to avoid duplicated stuff, and to avoid
> 
> Being one of the maintainers:
> 
> I will keep the tables in the dvb-apps tree for the time being.

That does not make sense at all -- why? Duplicated stuff always hurts.

> Will decide to
> drop the config files as needed from dvb-apps. It is necessary to keep a
> copy of the config files for development purposes, rather than pulling from
> different trees.

What development purposes, could you be more specific? You can still use
git submodules if really needed. But as it stands I do not see a reason
for that at all...

regards,
-- 
js