[LAD] Prototyping algorithms and ideas

[Fons Adriaensen]

On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 11:16:24AM -0500, Dave Robillard wrote:

> On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 15:08 +0100, Fons Adriaensen wrote:
> > - My usual grunge: unless you want me accidentally
> >   destroy some very expensive equipment which is not
> >   even mine, the generated JACK apps 
> > 
> >   MUST NOT AUTOCONNECT --- NEVER --- TO ANYTHING.
> 
> Hear hear.  This setting really must be moved into Jack.

Port locking was removed recently...

> Let the user specify the auto-connect ports (or none).
>  Apps doing ignorant things like connecting to the
> first n "physical" ports is useless a lot of the
> time anyway, even if you do want auto-connect
> (e.g. I would set them up to auto-connect to a
> mixer app)

There could be some 'standard' environment variables
defining which ports (if any) can be assumed to be
'general purpose audio playback'. In my case as well
this would be a software mixer input, or a least a
'monitoring management' app.

-- 
FA

Laboratorio di Acustica ed Elettroacustica
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