Re: [linux-audio-dev] Still I cannot understand why...

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Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Still I cannot understand why...
From: Jussi Laako (jussi.laako_AT_kolumbus.fi)
Date: Mon Dec 17 2001 - 23:43:17 EET


"..." wrote:
>
> > ALSA was not ready at that time, still isn't and maybe never will.
> Could you be more specific about why alsa "still isn't" ready?

API is still constantly changing. You can't change the API in years after
it's ready or developers will just get pissed off. I don't think there are
many developers who are willing to rewrite their programs every year.

For example of how APIs should be defined see POSIX.

My C++ class for handling ALSA IO is currently a bit messy because it has to
support ALSA 0.5 and 0.9. I don't even want to know how it would look if it
had to support four or five versions of the API.

Now my software supports three audio APIs, OSS and ALSA 0.5 & 0.9. Making
software compatible with even more APIs will make it more complex and that's
bad.

 - Jussi Laako

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