[mythtvnz] heads up - Listings - C4/Four transition

[David Moore]

On 08/03/11 10:16, Brendan Dacre wrote:
>     I know myth devs who would shoot you down for playing with the mysql
>     rather than using the tools provided (mythtv-setup).
>
>
> If you meant run a scan on a working system, that's something I won't do
> again (I don't remember exactly why, I just remember I won't do it again).
>
>...
> So the way that I do things is not necessarily the correct way, but the
> way that I am happy makes the minimal alterations to my working system,
> and that I am confident I can reverse if I want to...  :-)

I agree. I also will not run a scan ever again because it munted my 
channel customizations if I recall correctly. Also I have tinkered a 
fair bit with my database with sql and so long as you're careful I see 
no problems. And sometimes the myth interface just doesn't have a way to 
do things I want to do and I don't know Python so that's not an option. 
I can't really see why the myth devs get so wound up (I have seen a 
couple of posts from them) about hacking the database. So long as you 
don't expect them to fix your mistakes it's all good.