Re: [LAD] Source code for Open Sound System now available under GPLv2 and CDDL 1.0

On Thursday, 14 June 2007 00:41, pete shorthose wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 00:42 +0300, Hannu Savolainen wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > Now it has happened. Open Sound System is finally open sourced.
>
> http://4front-tech.com/hannublog/?p=5

Quote1:
        "However the ALSA API is still almost completely undocumented
        (after three years of it’s release) so how can anybody expect
        that programmers could develop good applications based on it."

Quote2:
        "For the above reasons the benefits of OSS are widely ignored:
        [...]
        * It’s fully documented (OTOH some parts of the documentation
        are still under construction)."

Yeah. The ALSA API is also fully documented, but some parts are still in a
work in progress state...

What happened to MIDI/sequencer?
http://4front-tech.com/hannublog/?p=6

Quote3:
        "The real problems started few months after that when I tried to
        document the sequencer/music interface. [...] Due to lack of
        time I gave up but promised to write the documentation later."

Quote4:
        "The bad news is that there is no MIDI support in OSS 4.0. There
        are few bugs in the MIDI code and we decided to ship OSS 4.0
        without it [...] MIDI support will be included in OSS 4.1
        (hopefully within this year)."

OK, lets talk about MIDI after some months.

Regards,
Pedro
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Received on Fri Jun 15 00:15:01 2007