Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] audio application mixing/routing arch
From: Maurizio DE CECCO (maurizio_AT_mandrakesoft.com)
Date: Fri Mar 31 2000 - 16:44:32 EEST
Paul Barton-Davis <pbd_AT_Op.Net> writes:
> Connecting them together: now, how does a standard, daemon-style host
> connect them together ? You'd have to have a (G)UI that allowed the user
> to specify the routing, then relay this information to the
> daemon. What you're describing now sounds more like a replacement for
> esd.
Please don't !!!!
The daemon (or whatever) should offer an API for making the connections;
the API can be a library communicating with the daemon with some IPC technique.
The daemon should not be linked with any code making direct user interaction;
(think for a moment to a embedded Linux kernel running on a real synth :->).
IMHO, plugin that have a direct UI (i.e. a UI running on the same process of the daemon)
are not a good idea on a Linux based architecture; think of having a plugin made
with a Kde interface running on a GNOME system ...
Leave the DSP code and the UI interface code separate, otherwise the whole
thing will need to be redone tens and tens of time ...
-- Maurizio De Cecco MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/
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