Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: [Alsa-devel] ALSA homepage redesign
From: Nick D (nixx_AT_nixx.org.uk)
Date: Thu Apr 18 2002 - 22:13:39 EEST
On Thu, 18 Apr 2002 13:27:33 -0400 (EDT)
Fred Gleason <fredg_AT_wava.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Joern Nettingsmeier wrote:
>
> > NOOOO. could we please please please annihilate every last little
> > trace of alsa 0.5.x from that page ?
>
> I'd like to add my vote for this here too. The whole 0.5.x vs. 0.9.x
> thing is *hugely* confusing -- to me, to programmers, and to end users.
Yep,
and im definitely another one who strongly agrees with this.
It's definitely time 0.5 should be officially discontinued.
It's annoying for developers, since a lot of systems still run 0.5, so which do we develop for? lets make sure noone uses 0.5 any more..
> If 0.9.x is the stable API (it *is*, isn't it??), then let's all get
> behind it and PUSH.
Quite.
0.9.x is pretty much stable as it is. and its significantly better too :)
> In the same vein, let's get the docs for the ancient
> 0.2.0 stuff off the site too. They just muddy the waters at this point.
we should definitely discourage people from developing 0.5 code..
nick
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