22 May
2012
22 May
'12
7:45 p.m.
On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 12:08 PM, Paul Davis <paul(a)linuxaudiosystems.com> wrote:
I'm sorry but I don't agree with any of these
ideas.
One of the guiding design philosophies behind JACK's design has been to
avoid trying to create an API that covers every possible use case, including
all the obscure ones. We have seen several examples of this (the most
notable being SGI's graphics API) which provide the general lesson that
adding complexity in order to be able to satisfy the least common 10% of use
cases invariably causes unnecessary complexity for the common 80%.
If you want a "room" like concept then please work on providing per-port
metadata (I can post a header that describes a proposed API), because I
believe that this will provide everything necessary to do this without
JACK's involvement. This is an important addition to the API, and will
facilitate many things that are useful and moderately common.
I didn't actually understand any of the OP's proposal. But I would
like to chime in and express my support for the idea of per-port
meta-data--it would indeed be very useful.