Re: [linux-audio-dev] Juce now has ALSA support!

From: David Kastrup <dak@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Thu Mar 02 2006 - 21:02:23 EET

Jussi Laako <jussi.laako@email-addr-hidden> writes:

> I somehow find this a bit funny. OSS has been dealing with these
> things at driver level and hiding the complexity pretty well. And it
> also works for pro cards like my Delta1010. First it was argued that
> there wasn't enough control and ALSA was better. Now ALSA has taken
> this to the other extreme and now we are arguing if it's too
> complex.

No, that's not what we are arguing, at least how I understood it. The
topic was not complexity but accessibility. If it is impossible to
find explanations, stuff is hard to do. A well-documented crummy
interface can be easier to work with than an under-documented
well-designed one.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
Received on Fri Mar 3 00:15:05 2006

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