[LAD] Guide to Linux Sound APIs

[Paul Davis]

On Sun, 2008-09-28 at 16:04 +0900, David Cournapeau wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 3:52 PM, Steve Lindsay
> <stephen.a.lindsay at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Ubuntu + Fedora would make up a decent percentage of new linux installations.
> 
> Yes, but Ubuntu + Fedora >> Ubuntu 8.04 + Fedora 9.
> 
> Also, I guess it depends on how you upgrade, because my workstation is
> 8.04, which is upgraded every year or so for 2 years and a half now,
> and I don't have pulseaudio. One of the package I wan't to add sound
> support for is for science mostly, and many people are still using
> Ubuntu Dapper, Fedora 3, etc...
> 
> So it does not look like pulseaudio is that great if you want to
> support various linux and have very little needs for audio.

As Lennart tried to make reasonably clear, the primary goal of
PulseAudio is NOT to act as a new API, but to act as a new
*infrastructure* that supports existing APIs transparently.
I am sure that he would be happy if it eventually takes over the world
and everybody writes apps using its API, but that doesn't appear to be
the goal right now.

--p