Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] developer issues in sfront 0.80 ...
From: nick (nixx_AT_nixx.org.uk)
Date: Thu May 09 2002 - 17:37:52 EEST
Yes, we definitely need to stop people from developing *new* alsa0.5
apps - its officially dead. This also needs to be clear to users - we
dont want them installing alsa0.5 ..
nick
On Thu, 2002-05-09 at 11:14, Paul Davis wrote:
> >Just to keep people from doing duplicate work, Enrique Robledo
> >(erobledo_AT_iua.upf.es) and me are porting sfront's alsa midi
> >(rawmidi and sequencer) from 0.5 to 0.9, which is actually a
> >very easy task. ALSA 0.9 audio still remains to be done though.
> >
> >Question: should sfront support both 0.5 and 0.9, are should we
>
> "0.5 is no longer supported by the developers" says the website.
>
> I can see no reason to support 0.5. Its old, broken in many subtle and
> a few not-so-subtle ways, and has nothing to do with the ALSA now
> included with the 2.5 kernel. Even the distributions that include ALSA
> do not distribute 0.5 at this time.
>
> --p
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