On Sun, 28.09.08 09:38, Paul Davis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > 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.
The reason why I don't ask application developers at this time to adopt the native PA API is that it is a relatively complex API since all calls are asynchronous. It's comprehensive and not redundant, but simply too complex for everyone but the most experienced. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net ICQ# 11060553 http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4 _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
