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<blockquote data-quote="Pat Clark" data-source="post: 1139223" data-attributes="member: 123421"><p>I came to this discussion from a different perspective. I happened to wonder how a complex project (open source or not) can survive for many many years, without huge manpower and budgets, as the OS underpinnings change over the years.</p><p></p><p>It seems clear to me that small(ish) and independent apps are the way to go, each with published interfaces for any required communication, configuration, or whatever. This then reminded me of the Unix philosophy of old with it's piping of small apps, which then led to the Windows 8 screen and the Metro interface.</p><p></p><p>It's important, of course, not to reinvent the wheel all the time, but this is "dangerous" if what you rely on is discontinued. (Back in the day, we would require the source to be put in escrow for our use in the event the supplier discontinued the product. Open source projects were not even thought of then.)</p><p></p><p>The original poster, back in 2012, saw the Metro UI as a "natural" for an HTPC, incorporating independent apps from different suppliers, each displaying their content in the OS's standard way, one at a time. I'm not intimately familiar with the interactions within the MP software, but it seems to me the biggest percentage of interaction is surely the handling of the screen and maintaining a common "look and feel" -- otherwise, the plugins (built-in or not) seem relatively independent. (The database aspects of clients and servers could be independent as well.)</p><p></p><p>A suite of independent apps, all from the same organization, can be imagined which play well together with defined look and feel, central configuration and database management, etc. But unrelated apps, such as a web browser, have no need of being centrally managed.</p><p></p><p>MediaPortal 1 is a large, long-lived, complex beast already, and it may be too late to salvage it for the long term, but MP2 may be a vehicle that could take us into the future.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Pat Clark, post: 1139223, member: 123421"] I came to this discussion from a different perspective. I happened to wonder how a complex project (open source or not) can survive for many many years, without huge manpower and budgets, as the OS underpinnings change over the years. It seems clear to me that small(ish) and independent apps are the way to go, each with published interfaces for any required communication, configuration, or whatever. This then reminded me of the Unix philosophy of old with it's piping of small apps, which then led to the Windows 8 screen and the Metro interface. It's important, of course, not to reinvent the wheel all the time, but this is "dangerous" if what you rely on is discontinued. (Back in the day, we would require the source to be put in escrow for our use in the event the supplier discontinued the product. Open source projects were not even thought of then.) The original poster, back in 2012, saw the Metro UI as a "natural" for an HTPC, incorporating independent apps from different suppliers, each displaying their content in the OS's standard way, one at a time. I'm not intimately familiar with the interactions within the MP software, but it seems to me the biggest percentage of interaction is surely the handling of the screen and maintaining a common "look and feel" -- otherwise, the plugins (built-in or not) seem relatively independent. (The database aspects of clients and servers could be independent as well.) A suite of independent apps, all from the same organization, can be imagined which play well together with defined look and feel, central configuration and database management, etc. But unrelated apps, such as a web browser, have no need of being centrally managed. MediaPortal 1 is a large, long-lived, complex beast already, and it may be too late to salvage it for the long term, but MP2 may be a vehicle that could take us into the future. [/QUOTE]
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