18 Jan
2008
18 Jan
'08
3:43 p.m.
Paul Davis wrote:
On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 16:02 +0100, Pieter Palmers
wrote:
Let me rephrase my remark to make it more correct: jack itself was
probably conceived with only one client and a soundcard to talk to, and
hence could also be denoted as a 'fantastic engineering solution that
doesn't talk to anything', at least not the way it does now.
The point I'm trying to make is that sometimes things start out with a
limited use scenario, but evolve into something generally adopted. And
sometimes this evolution doesn't take place...
Thanks for the correction, I wasn't that LAD-active back then.
Incredible how old jack has become... and still no 1.0 :)...
Greets,
Pieter
indeed, but do you have an alternative? It's
sort-of a chicken-and-egg
issue. Back when jack was conceived, there were no jack clients either.
So you didn't have anything to 'talk to' either (important exception: a
soundcard).
i don't know that it matters, but this is not strictly how it happened.
JACK was developed out of Ardour's initial AudioEngine object. As a
result, when the first version of JACK was available, Ardour could
already use it. how much of an incentive or disincentive this was to
JACK's adoption is probably not relevant.