[vdr] Question regarding future direction of VDR

[Michal Dobrzynski <michal@appl.com.au>]

Hi Klaus,

I know you've answered this question before but I'm not sure I fully 
understood what you mean.

With regards to modularizing VDR you said that you wanted such things 
as LIRC, keyboard, etc supported by VDR itself so that VDR could stand 
alone. I'm having trouble understanding how making things like LIRC and 
keyboard, etc plugins would conflict with that goal. These would be 
plugins which are part of VDR and I think "vdr -Plirc", "vdr 
-Pkeyboard", or even "vdr -Plirc -Pkeyboard" are better than vdr-lirc 
or vdr-kbd.

This is just my opinion but I think that would still leave you with 
complete flexibility in developing VDR as you see fit since those would 
be core VDR plugins but it would also allow much greater flexibility 
for users and/or developers to customize things for themselves with far 
greater ease.

I'm not trying to tell you what to do, just trying to understand why 
you seem to be against this sort of modularisation. Kind of reminds me 
of the debate between Linus and Tanenbaum regarding OS modularity.

Regards,
Michal

P.S. I still think HURD is a better design! :)



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