--- Jussi Laako <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 17:44, Paul Davis wrote: > > > OSS is dead. You should not be writing apps with > OSS. If you want > > portability use PortAudio. > > It's not dead if you are doing audio work on any > other IEEE-1003.1 OS > than Linux.
The prob. w/ portaudio is it abstracts to OSS, not ALSA and I'd rather not take the least-common denominator road. I'd rather my app take advantage of all the end user's system has, yet work if the person doesn't have the latest & greatest. What's wrong w/ writing layers yourself that fit better to your particular app's needs? A lot of coders here would rather avoid writing to an API or platform they don't like than have an app that is more likely to work on more people's computers, playing favorites with bleeding edge technologies like JACK. from a marketing perspective, that's insane. My app is for $ and I want people to be able to run it w/o having to check out CVS, yet still have support for these new things (such as JACK and ALSA) if they have it. I know it's more work to write your own abstractions, but it's worth it. abstraction layers are too cookie-cutter unless you are making something simple like an mp3 player. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com
