[elan]

I may not get an answer to this but I'll ask anyway. Elan, are you planning on eventually rewriting the Mac front end so it doesn't use the XBMC codebase?

We're focused on thin clients, so our primary interest in any client front-end is that it's as lightweight as possible. For the Plex/Nine release, most of the focus has been on removing/disabling as much as possible to leave just the player and skinning engine.

XBMC's skinning engine (even the older version we have) is the best one I know of, and I can say almost the same about the player. So we just want to use those components to build a fast, thin, fast client which talks to the Plex Media Server.

As an example of why we choose to operate like this, I've heard that hdhomerun support is broken in Plex. Now, I barely know what an hdhomerun is, and none of us on the team have one. And I suspect a very small (yet possibly vocal) fraction of our userbase owns one. So we just don't want to spend the time supporting it, wondering why it's not working, or leaking memory, or causing crashes.

Now I'm not saying this is the only best philosophy around, or even the best one. It's simply the one that suits us best.