>There are discussions on kde-multimedia about >the future of Linux/Unix multimedia (especially sound). >This is one of the most interesting messages.
CSL is proposed primarily as a wrapper layer around existing APIs. as such, it seems to me to have no particular merits over PortAudio, which has the distinct advantages of (1) existing (2) working on many platforms already and (3) using well-developed abstractions. CSL was written as if PortAudio doesn't exist. I don't know if this a NIH attitude, or something else, but I see little reason not use consider PortAudio as *the* CSL, and by corollary, little reason to develop Yet Another Wrapper API. the only reason i was happy writing JACK was precisely because its not another wrapper API - it specifically removes 90% of the API present in ALSA, OSS and other similar HAL-type APIs. --p
