That was not my experience. I put together a pulseaudio IO module for Csound using the simple API (pulse/simple.h) in about half an hour. It seemed much simpler than any alternative. And it seemed to do everything I needed from it.
Victor At 13:59 29/09/2008, you wrote: >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 Victor Lazzarini Music Technology Laboratory Music Department National University of Ireland, Maynooth _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
