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<blockquote data-quote="GoldenEye" data-source="post: 201331" data-attributes="member: 15813">Brocelande,From my (an end user's) perspective, dvdfreak's new features are critical. And IMO it is a need to integrate the functionality into TVE3. Otherwise I fear that the WAF will decrease and that the funtionality will only be used by technical people.I am not a programmer so I cannot estimate the effort needed for adapting TVE3 to dvdfreak's suggested architectural changes. However, I have to admit that dvdfreak's approach (externalisation of the EPG and making it accessible through a stable API) makes sense to me because this sounds like more long-term stability and less side-effects due to changes, which is what we all are looking for (and which seems to be a general MP issue).I am confident that the development team will think deeply about their decision whether to incorporate changes like dvdfreak's although I can understand your point of view. Probably, this discussion would not be needed if dvdfreak had discussed the archtectural topic before starting his project.G.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="GoldenEye, post: 201331, member: 15813"] Brocelande, From my (an end user's) perspective, dvdfreak's new features are critical. And IMO it is a need to integrate the functionality into TVE3. Otherwise I fear that the WAF will decrease and that the funtionality will only be used by technical people. I am not a programmer so I cannot estimate the effort needed for adapting TVE3 to dvdfreak's suggested architectural changes. However, I have to admit that dvdfreak's approach (externalisation of the EPG and making it accessible through a stable API) makes sense to me because this sounds like more long-term stability and less side-effects due to changes, which is what we all are looking for (and which seems to be a general MP issue). I am confident that the development team will think deeply about their decision whether to incorporate changes like dvdfreak's although I can understand your point of view. Probably, this discussion would not be needed if dvdfreak had discussed the archtectural topic before starting his project. G. [/QUOTE]

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