Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Still I cannot understand why...
From: Paul Davis (pbd_AT_Op.Net)
Date: Tue Dec 18 2001 - 00:48:31 EET
>> > 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.
The API's haven't change substantially in months. Thats after a period
of intense development activity to refine a better, flexible, stable
API. Nobody ever said the 0.9 API was ready. If you didn't want to
work with an unstable API you should never have used it.
>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.
There have only ever been 2 versions: ALSA 0.5 and ALSA "current". The
"current" version has never been declared stable. When it is, you can
be sure that it will not change again, just as the ALSA 0.5 API has
remained stable over a couple of years or more. All apps written for
ALSA 0.5 still work, if they were written correctly before.
--p
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