Paul Davis wrote: > On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 16:02 +0100, Pieter Palmers wrote: >> indeed, but do you have an alternative? It's sort-of a chicken-and-egg >> issue. Back when jack was conceived, there were no jack clients either. >> So you didn't have anything to 'talk to' either (important exception: a >> soundcard). > > i don't know that it matters, but this is not strictly how it happened. > JACK was developed out of Ardour's initial AudioEngine object. As a > result, when the first version of JACK was available, Ardour could > already use it. how much of an incentive or disincentive this was to > JACK's adoption is probably not relevant. >
Let me rephrase my remark to make it more correct: jack itself was probably conceived with only one client and a soundcard to talk to, and hence could also be denoted as a 'fantastic engineering solution that doesn't talk to anything', at least not the way it does now. The point I'm trying to make is that sometimes things start out with a limited use scenario, but evolve into something generally adopted. And sometimes this evolution doesn't take place... Thanks for the correction, I wasn't that LAD-active back then. Incredible how old jack has become... and still no 1.0 :)... Greets, Pieter _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-dev