2 Mar
2006
2 Mar
'06
2:28 p.m.
On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 09:17 -0500, Paul Davis wrote:
the framebuffer") was remarkably complex to do.
ALSA strikes me as much
the same way, at every level, from the kernel API, to libasound, to user
space utilities.
one could argue, as Lee has done, that people
(programmers, users)
should be using higher level APIs and leave the complexity behind, but
somebody or something has to deal with it at some point in order to get
sound in or out of the machine.
I somehow find this a bit funny. OSS has been dealing with these things
at driver level and hiding the complexity pretty well. And it also works
for pro cards like my Delta1010. First it was argued that there wasn't
enough control and ALSA was better. Now ALSA has taken this to the other
extreme and now we are arguing if it's too complex.
Truth is probably somewhere between, as usual...
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Jussi Laako <jussi.laako(a)pp.inet.fi>