Thread: [Announce] [N900,N950,N9] Xbmcremote
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2012-07-26 , 09:34
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Originally Posted by RobertMe View Post
A couple of weeks ago I already spoke with mzanetti about Frodo support and although we didn't really come to a conclusion, at some point we most likely will drop Eden support.
Yes, *at some point*, but when is that? There will always be people that follow the bleeding edge, but I also know many that have installed XBMC-Live and when it works they don't upgrade or touch it, because it works reliably. IMO Eden will be used in the wild for months, or even years after Frodo is marked stable.

Originally Posted by RobertMe View Post
So there will be no "degraded" version for Eden users. Although I guess they would still be able to use a new Frodo based version, but that would mean they have some buttons and things which wouldn't work (non working keyboard and some buttons on the gesturepad not working would be most notable I guess).
My fear is that xbmcremote then might be perceived by 'regular users' as unfinished and buggy. Besides, the moment Frodo's RPC API stops being backwards compatible, xbmcremote will degrade even more for Eden users.

On the other hand, not including support for Frodo's new features for a long time is also unwanted of course.

One solution could be to have 2 versions of xbmcremote in the repositories (hence having the 2 branches I mentioned before), but runtime detection is IMO very possible, and by internally using a simple API abstraction layer/delegate this should extend into Frodo+1 as well..
 

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