[LAU] [LAD] Descent synth as dssi

[Paul Davis]

2010/3/9 Julius Smith <julius.smith at gmail.com>:
> Since I always use shell scripts to get as close as I can to a
> particular set-up state, I would love to see more support for that, to
> the point that it doesn't have to look like scripting to an end user.
> For example, each app could respond to a message to return its state
> in shell-script form, like a ~/.jackdrc file, and the session saver
> would simply append these to a startup script that it can run behind
> the scenes to restore the session.  Of course,  active connections
> among apps need to be uniquely identified in some way (OSC?), and apps
> should be able to accept connection specifications that are not
> immediately "ready", etc., so that the segments can be run in any
> order.

this is all part of the current proposal to add session mgmt to jack,
which has been discussed a great deal on the jack mailing list.