Why were MP2 and MP1 developed parallel? (1 Viewer)

[Snoopy87]

Hi,

what I don't understand is, why you are working on MP1 AND MP2? Wouldn't it be better to focus 100% on MP2 and just release bugfixes for MP1? Because then MP2 would be finished much faster At the moment you also work hard on MP1 and add new feature to MP1.

Also what happen to bugfixes, workarounds and new feature of MP1? Will they also directly added to MP2 or only to MP1 and so those issues are still present on MP2 until someone find those and create a new bug report?

This is not criticism! Just a question, because I don't know what's the reason for working on both versions I know that MP2 is still in a very early state of development, but does it make sense to waste time for adding new features to MP1?

Kind regards,
Sascha

 

[chefkoch]

No problem. We totally understand the confusion on the user side.
To be honest: You should take MP1 and MP2 as completely different projects.
They don't have much in common except:

• The name MediaPortal
• both are targeting to be a multimedia / htpc software
• both are hosted at team-mediaportal.com

As a result of the differences in the development architecture, especially the skin engine, we have to independent development team.
The amount of devs working on MP2 is much lower than those are working on MP1, which is the reason why a user might get the feeling that MP2 is getting better very slowly.

Even if it is confusing for the end user to have two different versions, which are in fact two different products it has many advantages. We can share many years of experience of devs, testers, documentation team and users. We can share all the online facilities, and slowly but sure more and more people are moving over to MP2.

Nevertheless as it is a open source project and everybody is doing this in his free time nobody can and should be forced to work on specific things.

Regarding the bug reports, of course they are completely independent from each other. So if something gets fixed in MP1 it doesn't mean it also needs to be fixed in MP2, be it because of the feature does not exist, yet or even better the issues does not even exist in MP2.
A difference here would be the TVE35 which will be share between MP1 and MP2, but that's a different story and in a very early development stage.

 

[tourettes]

Regarding the bug reports, of course they are completely independent from each other. So if something gets fixed in MP1 it doesn't mean it also needs to be fixed in MP2, be it because of the feature does not exist, yet or even better the issues does not even exist in MP2.

DS filters are shared for the most of them, althou MP2 yet doesn't take use of MPAR, Blu-ray playback etc.

 

[chefkoch]

DS filters are shared for the most of them, althou MP2 yet doesn't take use of MPAR, Blu-ray playback etc.

Yep, sorry for forgetting the very important DShow guys.

 

[Snoopy87]

Thanks!