However, doing so (writing apps using his API) is dead easy. Victor
----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "David Cournapeau" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2008 8:38 AM Subject: Re: [LAD] Guide to Linux Sound APIs > On Sun, 2008-09-28 at 16:04 +0900, David Cournapeau wrote: >> On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 3:52 PM, Steve Lindsay >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Ubuntu + Fedora would make up a decent percentage of new linux >> > installations. >> >> Yes, but Ubuntu + Fedora >> Ubuntu 8.04 + Fedora 9. >> >> Also, I guess it depends on how you upgrade, because my workstation is >> 8.04, which is upgraded every year or so for 2 years and a half now, >> and I don't have pulseaudio. One of the package I wan't to add sound >> support for is for science mostly, and many people are still using >> Ubuntu Dapper, Fedora 3, etc... >> >> So it does not look like pulseaudio is that great if you want to >> support various linux and have very little needs for audio. > > As Lennart tried to make reasonably clear, the primary goal of > PulseAudio is NOT to act as a new API, but to act as a new > *infrastructure* that supports existing APIs transparently. > I am sure that he would be happy if it eventually takes over the world > and everybody writes apps using its API, but that doesn't appear to be > the goal right now. > > --p > > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-dev _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
