29 Sep
2008
29 Sep
'08
10:59 a.m.
On Sun, 28.09.08 09:38, Paul Davis (paul(a)linuxaudiosystems.com) wrote:
The reason why I don't ask application developers at this time to
adopt the native PA API is that it is a relatively complex API since
all calls are asynchronous. It's comprehensive and not redundant, but
simply too complex for everyone but the most experienced.
Lennart
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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.