[LAD] [Jack-Devel] Jack MTC/MMC slaving

[Paul Davis]

On Mon, 2008-11-10 at 10:08 -0600, Jack O'Quin wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 9:28 AM, Stéphane Letz <letz at grame.fr> wrote:
> 
> > I think this kind of tools is a good candidate to be developed as an "in
> > server" JACK client. With the dbus based dynamic access of available "in
> > server" clients installed on a machine, it will be quite easy to load/unload
> > this kind of tool when needed (Netjack2 uses this model of "in server"
> > clients).
> 
> Stephane has a good point.
> 
> But, implementing it as an external client probably makes sense right
> now.  It should be simpler to support both jackd and jackdmp servers
> with the same code that way.

agreed. and it may be easier to remain that way if users want easy
control over MMC ID and a few other parameters related to MMC handling.
however the appeal of using some "parameter setting protocol" to set
this in a client that is otherwise invisible is fairly apparent.

--p