On Monday 12 January 2004 9:11 am, Kai Vehmanen wrote: > Now the commercial OSS (www.opensound.com) is a different thing. It too > (like ALSA) provides coherent behaviour across different drivers.
I guess this is what I am talking about, really. > > _Dont get me wrong_, ALSA is great and a lot more powerful than OSS, but > > it is lacking a simple API. > > Ever try to write an In/Out volume control mixer in OSS? Ever try to port > > that same mixer to ALSA? > > Believe me, I agree with you 100% with regards to importance of > simplicity. ALSA still has some complex edges, but is has come a long way. > More documentation, tutorials and example code are still needed, but it > takes time (and volunteers) to create them. I'm sure help is appreciated. The problem here is, the people writing docs/tutorials need in depth knowledge of how this all works. And unfortunately, the best people to do this are the developers themselves. > But that's just one example. ALSA needs to support much more complex mixer > configurations than OSS, and this of course comes with a price. > > It is very difficult to try to hide all this complexity from the developer > without in the end limiting what the developer can do. So it's a question > of finding out a good balance between what can be done and how easy it is. > I guess currently ALSA is still too much on the complex side, but slowly > the correct balance will be found... So your input is very much > appreciated, but at the same time, please don't lose hope just yet. :) Oh, I havent lost hope at all. I am very excited about ALSA nearing version 1. I don't want to limit what alsa can do, only have access to a simple-ized part of the API, that's fast and easy for developers to write. Which is what I view the OSS compat. to be. I work with embedded devices, and so I am always thinking of ways to optimize the code and make apps smaller, which also means writing more app with less code. > -- > http://www.eca.cx > Audio software for Linux! -- Lorn 'ljp' Potter Qtopia Community Manager lpotter at trolltech.com ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Perforce Software. Perforce is the Fast Software Configuration Management System offering advanced branching capabilities and atomic changes on 50+ platforms. Free Eval! http://www.perforce.com/perforce/loadprog.html _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel
