[LAD] alsa and OSS (again?)

[holborn]

El Tuesday 22 January 2008 18:03:55 Ivica Ico Bukvic escribió:
> > On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 16:18 -0500, Ivica Ico Bukvic wrote:
> > > In other words, provided that my conjectures are true, I could see ALSA
> > > becoming simply an API to access the soundcard and everything else
> > > being moved out of the ALSA which IMHO could help spur some of the
> > > ostensibly bogged down aspects of Linux audio experience.
> >
> > I think this is entirely accurate. the distributions and other "desktop"
> > organizations are tired of ALSA as "the solution", and are embracing
> > PulseAudio and various similar efforts/wrappers (e.g. Phonon on KDE).
> > ALSA is going to vanish as an API for all but those developers who don't
> > know how to use google. Pulse even has plans to "replace" JACK one day,
> > but its lead author fully understands the challenge there.
>
> Thanks for the clarification.
>
> So this begs for a question: is there a consensus whether this is
> considered a good thing or a bad one? IMHO I see it as a good thing as long
> as it makes things better and more transparent.

My point of view as user and amateur programmer is not so good, with all the 
respect to everybody, the linux MIDI/Audio world seems an API contest, I 
don't have knowledge to judge APIs, probably all are so good, but in the non 
expert user side all of this generate more confusion.

Hope with jack-midi we reach a definitive solution for audio/midi in linux, 
probably the transition starts now.

Maybe some day the RT patches will be inside the kernel in all of the distros, 
and the desktop users will run linux audio apps without "external" problems.

Can the linuxaudio consortium put some pressure right now to the kernel team?


Josep