Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Midi Mapper???
From: Kai Vehmanen (kai.vehmanen_AT_wakkanet.fi)
Date: Sat Jan 05 2002 - 07:56:30 EET
On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Paul Davis wrote:
> yes, i agree that this is odd, and also wrong. however, i would point
> out that very, very few people have been involved in the development
> of ALSA. every month, a couple of people pop up, promising to "write
[...]
> there is only so much that jaroslav can do. i wouldn't say that this
> was an "odd project" so much - more, its odd that so much the existing
> community of linux audio developers has so far failed to join in and
> help with ALSA, an API that offers them so much.
I couldn't agree more. I've grown _very_ tired of
people constantly bashing and complaining about ALSA.
It's one thing to maintain a big user-space project
with a couple of active developers, but maintaining
a whole damn kernel-space subsystem is pretty
amazing!
Just think of how time-consuming and difficult it
is to trace and fix soundcard-specific bugs and
misc problems!?!? You know, there's only that many
soundcards you can plug to one PC at a time. And
that's not even all of it. In addition to keeping n+1
different drivers up to date, ALSA team has to follow
kernel development and maintain a user-space
framework (=alsa-lib, alsa-utils, etc).
And really, there aren't many alternatives now
are there are? So either be happy with OSS, help
with ALSA or start your own...
And btw; the same thing with OSS/Commercial. Without
their drivers, I wouldn't have switched
to Linux so early as I did. And I bet I'm
not the only one. So I don't think they
have deserved the bad-guy status they seem
to have now. And really, it's practically
two guys, Hannu and Dev (+XMMS crew). Hardly
not the average company sucking out blood from
the community. Yes, their drivers cost money,
but hey, you have options, so no reason to
complain, right? We all got to make our living
somehow...
-- http://www.eca.cx Audio software for Linux!
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