- January 1, 2012
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Hi everyone,
MediaPortal is great. And what makes it even better are skind and plugins.
However, some plugins have become so important that they provide essential functionality to MediaPortal.
Some of these plugins are no longer being actively maintained as their authors are no longer interested or simply real life doesn't leave any time to continue development. To make things worse, sometimes not even the source code is available.
Examples are @cul8er 's plugins (e.g. Fanart Handler, Latest Media Handler) or the development of @Oxan 's MPExtended and WebMediaPortal.
At some point, these plugins might stop working as the become incompatible (already happened with Fanart Handler which is only working because @Sebastiii recompiled it).
Is there any way to deal with this except from complete rewrites of the functionality and to integrate it into MePo itself? I am sure nobody would like to have no fanart available and the MPExtended functionality is really great for external access to MePo resources.
Any ideas by the devekopment team on what to do about these things long-term?
MediaPortal is great. And what makes it even better are skind and plugins.
However, some plugins have become so important that they provide essential functionality to MediaPortal.
Some of these plugins are no longer being actively maintained as their authors are no longer interested or simply real life doesn't leave any time to continue development. To make things worse, sometimes not even the source code is available.
Examples are @cul8er 's plugins (e.g. Fanart Handler, Latest Media Handler) or the development of @Oxan 's MPExtended and WebMediaPortal.
At some point, these plugins might stop working as the become incompatible (already happened with Fanart Handler which is only working because @Sebastiii recompiled it).
Is there any way to deal with this except from complete rewrites of the functionality and to integrate it into MePo itself? I am sure nobody would like to have no fanart available and the MPExtended functionality is really great for external access to MePo resources.
Any ideas by the devekopment team on what to do about these things long-term?