On 1/21/08, Albert Cahalan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It may be open, but it isn't much of a standard. > I've only found one implementation, csound itself. > There are no hardware implementations.
See, just because a standard is less used than another standard it doesn't make it worse. It just turns out less people bothered to support it. Striving for the best should always be our goal, humanity's goal. So let's not use that as an argument against Csound, which by the way, I had never heard of until this thread. This thread started because 1) ALSA is awful, 2) There is no OSS emulation in the XO which breaks some programs, and 3) IMO, I would love if we could seriously discuss switching OSS for ALSA. See, ALSA is a worse standard for audio in Linux. Again, just because it's not the favored standard, doesn't mean it shouldn't be considered. Many reasons were already pointed out, but I would like in my last message to this thread, to point out the pratical reasons: * It's easier to maintain * It's easier to write software to work with it * It uses much less resources than ALSA, and we are trying to spare resources on this project * It is a bad idea to use workarounds, emulation, and frameworks all to go around problems in ALSA Take that as you will. -Ivo _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
