xbmc/xbmc — comment on commit 5ecc52506b8d068b11cf5a28341e2c7fde727be6
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By Zxurian:

@firnsy - You mentioned that custom DB names are being depreciated. I'm curious as to the rational behind that. Creating a new database name with every database revision (in the case of mysql) prevents direct database access without directly talking to XBMC first. Third-party programs that interact with the database directly would have to constantly talk to XBMC first upon each launch to check what database name is being used, instead of using database names provided by the user. This seems like unecessary overhead to me.