On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 08:21 am, Richard Kimber wrote: > > > particular cards etc. it's all work in progress. Maybe it's not for > > > you at this time (that's not elitist remark, alsa simply does not > > > provide what you want _at this time_) > > > > I wonder then, why does it have a 1.x version number?
Only just, after 5 years. The v1.0 status mainly signifies that the lower level programers API will not change, at least significantly, and that it is now Ok for all linux audio developers to dive in and use ALSA, particularly the ones that have held back from converting from OSS to ALSA because of the changing API in the past (0.5->0.9). > And why it has been incorporated into a stable kernel. So that you and I and the rest of us will test both the kernel and ALSA, and the kernel+ALSA, under various hardware conditions that will never happen until either is declared "stable". Allow about 1/2 a year for both, and the combination of both, to truly stablize. It may seem like a non-professional way to go about it but in the larger scheme of things, where some of us have been waiting _years_ (let alone those who have been doing the actual work) for a single truly open source audio environment, it's getting very close to being the ultimate system "we" have been waiting for. Rather than look at the incompleteless of either "product" try feeling warm and fuzzy that we are part of the process of making both of them better simply by using them and reporting bugs, and helping others when and where we can, in whatever way we can. --markc ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
