15 Oct
2003
15 Oct
'03
12:16 p.m.
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 09:26:07PM -0700, Thomas Webb wrote:
Say you have 3 months to deliver an audio app for
both
windows and linux. If you take longer than that,
you'll have to start going to work again or get
evicted (I swear, this is a hypothetical situation ;P)
JACK may or may not be ready by then, but if you use
agile programming practices and an abstraction layer,
your app will be ready for JACK or whatever new pops
up, even at the last minute!
This abstraction layer already exists and it's called PortAudio.
Under those constraints I think you'd be nuts not to use it.
--
Paul Winkler
http://www.slinkp.com