You could have said this a lot different. To start with: He explains that the goals were perhaps to high set for a one person project. He explains clearly why he stopped with it. And in my opinion the arts project is for sound almost unmatched looking at the architecture, and the fact that the project is used and still in use by major linux distributors, thus recognizing the usefullness of the product. With a focus on just the sound card part of the project, it beats about everything else in the market place, including some of the projects he mentioned as great. Those projects are dead too. In general: Sound in linux is in a pretty bad shape until some groups combine forces and start working together as a team to develop one very nice sound deamon, which in my opinion will have the arts architecture as basis, and does not need that much more improvements to become a complete architecture (network sound sucks to set up so much, esd is fractionally better, some others are even better in that, but then commercial or 6 years without maintenance). The ideas of arts like running mp3 sounds over a network by sending mp3 packets so thus utilizing the CPU of a client, and with that eliminating a lot of other synchronization problems are just great.
On Sunday 09 January 2005 18:50, Gaétan Quentin wrote: > Here is an explanation from the arts author, saying, in a few words, that > his arts project is a shit because technologie choices were bad, and he > doesn't want to continue development on it any more.... : > http://www.arts-project.org/doc/arts-maintenance.html > > Regards, > > Gaetan > > _______________________________________________ > Arts mailing list > Arts@space.twc.de > http://space.twc.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/arts _______________________________________________ Arts mailing list Arts@space.twc.de http://space.twc.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/arts
