That's useful and very promising news! Thank you very much.

Florian


Jaroslav Kysela wrote:
> > Is it more likely that
> >
> > 1) the already changed function prototypes, which are usable
> >   by defining ALSA_PCM_NEW_HW_PARAMS_API, change in future,
> 
> If you use this define, your application will work with next major ALSA
> release (probably 1.0). Note that we have also ALSA_PCM_NEW_SW_PARAMS_API.
> 
> > or
> > 2) that the deprecated functions will be removed ?
> 
> Yes, we'll remove deprecated functions, but not for 0.9.
> 
> > I am talking here e.g. of  snd_pcm_hw_params_get_period_size()
> >
> > Are there any incompatibilities likely from 0.9.0rc5 to 0.9.0FCS ?
> 
> I hope that this change was the last change before 0.9.0final, but as you
> seen, we are trying to retain compatibility. So, old programs will work
> with newer ALSA libraries (at least for major ALSA releases) - note that
> it does not work in opposite way - programs linked with newer libraries
> can have trouble with older libraries.
> 
> I am sorry for late reply.
> 
>                                                 Jaroslav
> 
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> ALSA Project, SuSE Labs
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