[LAD] Guide to Linux Sound APIs

[victor]

However, doing so (writing apps using his API) is
dead easy.

Victor

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Davis" <paul at linuxaudiosystems.com>
To: "David Cournapeau" <cournape at gmail.com>
Cc: <Linux-audio-dev at lists.linuxaudio.org>
Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2008 8:38 AM
Subject: Re: [LAD] Guide to Linux Sound APIs


> 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
>
>
>
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