Re: [LAD] Guide to Linux Sound APIs

On Sun, 28.09.08 09:38, Paul Davis (paul@email-addr-hidden) wrote:

> > Also, I guess it depends on how you upgrade, because my workstation is
> > 8.04, which is upgraded every year or so for 2 years and a half now,
> > and I don't have pulseaudio. One of the package I wan't to add sound
> > support for is for science mostly, and many people are still using
> > Ubuntu Dapper, Fedora 3, etc...
> >
> > So it does not look like pulseaudio is that great if you want to
> > support various linux and have very little needs for audio.
>
> As Lennart tried to make reasonably clear, the primary goal of
> PulseAudio is NOT to act as a new API, but to act as a new
> *infrastructure* that supports existing APIs transparently.
> I am sure that he would be happy if it eventually takes over the world
> and everybody writes apps using its API, but that doesn't appear to be
> the goal right now.

The reason why I don't ask application developers at this time to
adopt the native PA API is that it is a relatively complex API since
all calls are asynchronous. It's comprehensive and not redundant, but
simply too complex for everyone but the most experienced.

Lennart

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