2019-04-04, 05:35 PM
Because of changes in Kodi v19 (Python 3) and NextPVR v5 (no more NEWA) x-newa 2.5.4 is the final release for v4 NextPVR and Kodi v16-v18. The good news is I have successfully ported x-newa to Python3 and it working pretty well on Kodi v18 (python 2 and 3) using the compatibility tools that Kodi thankfully provides.
The bad news is I am not going to test this version for release alone especially now that I use the Kodi addon more with v5 testing it is hard to catch some of the less frequent errors. The initial port involved removing 1000's of lines of code, removing several obsolete libraries, dead code and changing significant number of lines of code. The original codebase https://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.ph...R-FrontEnd was from GBPVR and EWA days with XBMC and lots has changed since I updated that in 2012. Going for the python utf-8 model to unicode has been an issue in some places so that is the biggest trouble spot I foresee.
If anyone is interested in seriously testing the next generation plugin, knew4v5 - called "New for v5" aka "canoe" or "new client" post here. (I wanted to get rid of the x- for years now) My preference is that testers start using it full time to trap error.s If there is enough interest I will update the repo so people can get automatic updates. I am hoping to find testers for v17 and maybe v16 too (SPMC users maybe)
Martin
The bad news is I am not going to test this version for release alone especially now that I use the Kodi addon more with v5 testing it is hard to catch some of the less frequent errors. The initial port involved removing 1000's of lines of code, removing several obsolete libraries, dead code and changing significant number of lines of code. The original codebase https://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.ph...R-FrontEnd was from GBPVR and EWA days with XBMC and lots has changed since I updated that in 2012. Going for the python utf-8 model to unicode has been an issue in some places so that is the biggest trouble spot I foresee.
If anyone is interested in seriously testing the next generation plugin, knew4v5 - called "New for v5" aka "canoe" or "new client" post here. (I wanted to get rid of the x- for years now) My preference is that testers start using it full time to trap error.s If there is enough interest I will update the repo so people can get automatic updates. I am hoping to find testers for v17 and maybe v16 too (SPMC users maybe)
Martin
