Beiträge von BartOtten

Google Translate:Ich habe nie gedanke SuperRepo würde Addon Entscheidungsträger aktualisieren ihre addon. Das ist ganz fantastisch!

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I never though SuperRepo would make Addon makers update their addon. That's totally awsome!

Thanks for the nice words about SuperRepo (I think) This site is kinda cool with those newsletters and stuff. Too bad there is no English version (hint)

FAQ:Why does SuperRepo only offer addons for XBMC Frodo?
Answer: Maintaining one repository with over 800 addons costs too much time and resources to serve addons for older versions of XBMC.

However, most addons are Eden compatible I think. SO just give it a try. You will see more <broken> addons in the list but still....it's better than nothing at all.

ps. Lol, 800 addons.....must be an old page. Including 990 for the time being

Zitat von moris187

ich hab mir das superrepo als zip installiert und z.B: superrepo all installiert allerdings sind die listen leer. Oder muss ich es wie angezeigt ein virtual disk machen

The empty list is a bug in XBMC Frodo itself. It has problems with getting the information about the repository (and the addons). It has been reported many times and so far the only solutionh is to force refresh (select repository in the list >> Context Menu >> Force refresh), wait five minutes, restart XBMC. It's a hassle but it is a repo independend bug so don't minus SuperRepo for it.

As for the: only one man you depend on. Not really true. One man is maintaining the engine that generates the repo but all the other stuff is community effort. Even when I am sick, the repo still runs. I am just resposible for making stuff as easy as possible . If I don't like it anymore, get sick or die it will continue as I will donate it all to someone else (will add something about it to my will

Do you know: Mad-Max his skin is already forked and adapted. The maintainer just asked for inclusion in SR (it will be the first skin that supports the new in-XBMC configuration!)

ps. It would be much easier to infect everybody using XBian So no, SR will stay clean

Sorry,
I never really payed attention in German class. So I have to do this in English.

I am the maintainer of SuperRepo and I will try to answer any questions.

1.) One of the reasons SuperRepo can include many more addons than the official Repo is that the rules are less strict. This allows us to include for example skins in development (they have their own category) which is something the skin-developers and users wanted for a long time. Secondly: we can process SVN accounts, the official repository system can not. Some addon developers dislike the official repository for that reason and don't let it include their addons.

2.) The XBMC Team is discussing SuperRepo internally at the moment. Afaik most teammembers like it and want to give it a chance. However, the (two or three) official repo maintainers really don't like it as they say I should have improved the official system so more developers would include their addon. However, I don't think 'code wise improvement' solves 'the problem' of official repo. It's a combination of many things that makes the official repository not include all and most of it is not really a matter of quality of the addons.
I've been talking to members of XBMC team while developing SR and the format addons are submitted is compatible. Soon I hope to have a 'submit your addon' form on the website that sends messages to both SR and XBMC so both teams can be 100% happy.

3.) The Youtube addon is installed as dependency for many addons. Can't do anything about that as I don't change the dependency code of addons. It's exacly the same with the official repository.

4.) It are hard links indeed. As SR grows it will use more bandwidth. Therefor I invested time to find mirrors to back it all up. At this moment there is 45Gbps available. So even if there are 20.000 users who download 40 addons a day, nobody will cross their bandwith limit as SR has it's own CDN.

5.) As the code of all addons can be seen, feel free to check some of them out and look if I changed anything. (besides the overridden, you can see that list on the SR Wiki)

So basically I could do anything to those addons, add virusses to them etc etc. But who ensures me that XBMCnerds site doesnt do/try the same thing? Maybe it's in the disclaimer that I could not read That's what we call trust As soon as someone makes an 'virusscanner' for addons I am happy willing to include that too.

Grüße von mir,

Bart Otten