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

[John Murphy]

On Mon, 5 Jul 2021 03:25:09 +0200 Robin Gareus wrote:
> On 7/4/21 6:35 PM, John Murphy wrote:
> > On Wed, 30 Jun 2021 15:48:31 -0700 Yuri wrote:
> > [...]  
> >> Does anybody have experience using it?
> >>
> >> https://pipewire.org/  
> > 
> > Yes. I've used it for a whole day now, on Linux Mint 20.1 Ulyssa base
> > (Ubuntu 20.04 focal). Everything seems to just work.  
> 
> 
> Yes, the project is making huge progress. Also thanks to the many early
> adopters filing helpful issue reports. Wim and his team address them at
> incredible speed.

I may have to do one of those. I think James Szinger's prediction [1]
is accurate, although, while I am confused I am not yet "wailing".

He says the proposal "does not mention any native tools.", by which
he may mean the jack-tools package itself, which is the source of my
partially working jack_transport (I use it most days via a QProcess).

> If you use it, be prepared to live on the bleeding edge, e.g. until last
> week pipewire didn't set realtime permissions correctly, and the week
> before had a crashing bug with Ardour querying ports when 3rd party apps
> are involved. Fixed now.
> 
> So update early, update often

I think I read that the PPA is updated every fifteen days, so I'll be
a bit behind the sharpest edge.

[1] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WFRFNYK7IPGJPOE7WILUPGNFXIXV4GTL/

-- 
John.