On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Maarten de Boer wrote: > Hello, > > I have been unsubscribed from alsa-devel for a while, so maybe i missed > the discussion about this, but a quick look at the archives did not reveal > anything. > > I just downloaded alsa 1.0.0rc2, and discovered that the API changed. > For example (and this is only an example), take the function > snd_pcm_hw_params_set_rate_near. Before, the 3th argument was the > samplerate requested, and the return value was the error value (<0) or > the samplerate obtained. > > err = snd_pcm_hw_params_set_rate_near(handle, params, rate, 0); > > Now, the third argument is a _pointer_, used to pass the requested value > _and_ to return the obtained samplerate. Note that the symbol is > identical, and that an application compiled against the old version will > happily link against the new version (but surely fail when executing!) > (or am I missing something here??) > > I clearly see the advantage of the new, cleaner, approach, but I still > remember the past ALSA API changes, and I was under the impression that > that would not happen again. I also thought that the 0.9.x releases were > a straight line to work towards the 1.0 release. So I am very surprised > to see this happen. If this has been discussed / announced somewhere, > than I am sorry for having missed it, but in any case, I think it might > be good to place a notice on the alsa web page.
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