[LAD] Is Piperware a successor to Jack/Pulseaudio?

[Dominique Michel]

Le Thu, 1 Jul 2021 18:57:59 -0400,
bill-auger <bill-auger at peers.community> a écrit :

> On Thu, 1 Jul 2021 07:01:31 +0100 Keith wrote:
> > > The biggest issue with Pipewire IMHO is that it does not support
> > > Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.    
> > 
> > I would suggest you have that round the wrong way: Ubuntu 18.04
> > doesn't support Pipewire. This is a Ubuntu problem, not a Pipewire
> > one. If it matters to an 18.04 user, they do have the option of
> > upgrading to 20.04.  

Distros do what they can. If your favourite software is not included,
you can contribute to it by at least making a bug report asking for its
addition.

> the pipewire devs are the ones who had the option to decide
> which distros it may be compatible with - obviously, ubuntu18
> was not one that "mattered" to them - but no project is obligated
> to support any specific distro, so there is no fault there either

Software developers make software, not distribution. They like when a
distribution support their software, but they are not responsible for
that.

Also, if a given software builds and works on a given distribution, as
example the distro(s) of the dev(s), it should work with all other
distributions where the dependencies are satisfied. For pipewire, as
systemd is an optional run time depend, it should builds and works on
all distributions providing alsa, dbus, python and meson, which must be
something like all not very old distributions.

So again, if your favourite distro did not include pipewire, you
can consider to contribute to it, or for an outdated distribution, to
one of its external repository or overlay.

Cheers,
Dominique