On Fri, 2009-08-07 at 10:50 -0400, Sean Corbett wrote: > Of course it would be a voluntary > standards base, and every developer / distro team can still do > whatever they like, so that innovation can continue... but as > protocols/interfaces/frameworks/whatever are developed and show their > merit, they can be included in the standards base, and > old/deprecated/redundant things removed, ...
You are on your way to define a moving target rather than a standard here. A standard is more like the "qwerty" layout which you can love or hate, the point being that the keys ain't moving around from one season to another. [Mmm ... TCP/IP networking might have been a better example.] That being said, what are the points that a distro must consider to be truely catering for sound. What are the targets for starters? * Entertainment: Everybody will vote for this, piratebayed or not. This is what Pulse is doing well if I have understood previous discussions. * Entertainment production: Perhaps only 10% of the population will find this important, though 10% is still a million Linux users or so. This is what Jack is aimed at and works as advocated IFF you have an RT-kernel, else you are pretty much fried ... --> Should an RT-kernel be marked as a dependency for Jack? I would say so. * Serious Gaming: I have no idea what the status of this point might be these days. * Other? _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
