On 9/30/24 11:25, Christof Ressi wrote:
? All I wanted to say is that users can decide to build Pd without JACK support, i.e. Pd does not *depend* on JACK. We can do the same with the GUI.We'd just need a configure option that allows to build Pd without the GUI. That's also what SuperCollider does: there's an option for building sclang without Qt (e.g. for headless systems).It's just like building Pd with our without JACK, for example.right. it's just like that.i have been lobbying to make the audio backends a runtime selection years ago.
the Pd sources do not depend on JACK. but once Pd has been compiled (with JACK), the binaries do depend on JACK.aka: if you do not have libjack installed (and your OS does not support weak linking), then Pd such a binary will not start.
or to turn it around: if i want to add a new audio backend to Pd (e.g. a native PipeWire backend; or some network audio driver like AOO), i must convince the BDFL to include my code into Pd core. if audio backends were decided runtime (based on some "audio backend external" i could just provide it via deken.
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