[LAD] [Jack-Devel] JACK & MIDI

[Paul Davis]

On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 16:02 +0100, Pieter Palmers wrote:
> indeed, but do you have an alternative? It's sort-of a chicken-and-egg 
> issue. Back when jack was conceived, there were no jack clients either. 
> So you didn't have anything to 'talk to' either (important exception: a 
> soundcard).

i don't know that it matters, but this is not strictly how it happened.
JACK was developed out of Ardour's initial AudioEngine object. As a
result, when the first version of JACK was available, Ardour could
already use it. how much of an incentive or disincentive this was to
JACK's adoption is probably not relevant.

--p