------------------------------------------------------------------------ A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=73698 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Question: Is third party plugins/applets important for your Squeezebox purchases ? - I won't buy any more Squeezebox products unless support for third party development is prioritized - I won't buy any more Squeezebox products unless the third party plugins I rely on is supported - I use third party plugins but I would still consider buying more Squeezebox products without them - I don't use third party plugins so they aren't important to my Squeezebox purchases ------------------------------------------------------------------------
It's a moot question for me, since I've already frozen/forked the server at 7.3.1. What tipped me over the edge was the Transporter's firmware being reflashed without so much as a by-your-leave, and the nexus between firmware and server version when Transporter firmware bugs seem to come and go. I don't care to have an A$3000 device bricked, and the Transporter is working well now. (I'm referring here particularly to the Optical In bug.) Having made that decision, plugins become problematical for me to install, because their authors probably test against the latest version. I'd like to say something about the quality of documentation for these plug-ins. Erland's plug-ins look useful for my classical collection, but as long as I can't understand what they are doing (as opposed to blindly following a setup recipe) and I can relatively easily hack the server itself they're not something I care to tangle with. Nor, as far as I can see, do they fully solve the classical problem. Whether or not Logitech decide to open a plug-in API for third parties, they have little choice but to break existing plug-ins and go quiet on their developers while that is shaken down. My reading of the SQL schema is that it has major design problems. The move away from perl to Lua and C is also IMO a good and necessary thing if the server is to be reliable - go and look at the server's hand-rolled Unicode normalization for a few favoured characters and tell me otherwise. P.S. not even the forum software works properly... -- peachmelba ------------------------------------------------------------------------ peachmelba's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=73698 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
