[linux-audio-dev] meterbridge 0.0.4

[torben hohn]

On 04 Oct 2002 10:21:13 +0100, Steve Harris wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 09:55:25 +1000, Stoll, Jake wrote:
> > > that, if not I
> > > will probably just move to always using bridge-<pid>. ¿comments?
> > 
> > The only thing I don't like about the <jack-client-name>-<pid> idea is when
> > you've got applications (ardour) that try to re-establish previous jack
> > connections it can't.
> > 
> > I'm not sure that you'd want to do this with the meterbridge but it's
> > something that needs to be handled if we want to be able to save and restart
> > a "jack session".
> 
> Well, there should be a standardised switch to jack clients that makes
> them use a given jack name, we´ve mentioned this before. I suggest
> --jack-name. votes¿

--jack-name is good.

libjack should be able to add its own commandline options through a
mechanism like gtk_init( argc, &argv );





> 
> I dont like using pids because it looks messy, maybe jack could provice an
> eqivalent to tmpname (or whatever its called), so you could call
> jack_unique_name("bridge") and get back "bridge-1" the first time and
> "bridge-2" the second for example.
> 
> - Steve
>