On May 4, 2011, at 10:39 32, Rui Nuno Capela wrote: > if one, say a jack client, ever wants to allow a direct loopback, why doesn't > he/she do the appropriate code him/her-self? it's a lousy memcpy() away isn't > it?
Sure, but then every app that needs that ability would end up having to reinvent the wheel, including custom UI classes for managing 'special' loopback cases, etc. Isn't the whole point of Jack to provide a single, powerful abstraction that all apps can use without having to worry about silly edge cases? Cheers! |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Frederick F. Gleason, Jr. | Chief Developer | | | Paravel Systems | |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Do not try to think outside of the box. That's impossible. Instead, | | realise the truth. There is no box. | | --Quoted by "larsmjoh" on GrokLaw.net | |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
