Re: [linux-audio-dev] Best-performing Linux-friendly MIDI interfaces?

From: Paul Davis <paul@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Tue Jun 14 2005 - 01:23:30 EEST

On Mon, 2005-06-13 at 23:30 +0200, Christoph Eckert wrote:
> > the competing APIs is definitely a problem. the OSS guys
> > continue to refuse to accept ALSA, and continue to promote
> > the benefits of their API and libraries. The layers that
> > have been built on top of them (PortAudio, JACK, the arts
> > audio api, gnome-sound, etc) continue to compete with each
> > other in various ways.
>
> That's not a problem, that's the usual evolution as seen may
> times in the free software world.

i disagree. i think it *is* a problem. its not a problem for people
willing and able to grapple with the implications of this
"evolution" (like myself and yourself). but its a huge issue to people
who just want it to work "the way it does on OS X" or even "the way it
does on windows".

--p
Received on Tue Jun 14 04:15:10 2005

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