Re: [LAD] alsa and OSS (again?)

Ivica Ico Bukvic wrote: I think there's a misunderstanding there. The goals of these projects are different. Midishare doesn't aim to replace ALSA, in fact it works with ALSA sequencer (as well as OSS and a number of other interfaces on different platforms). Midishare is a high-level, cross-platform MIDI API which has been around on various platforms long before ALSA, and even before Linux was a blink in Linus' eye. It's similar in scope to PortMidi, but more mature and offers more features. In fact I think that the ALSA sequencer was inspired by Midishare in some ways, but that doesn't mean that one should be replaced by the other. Some ppl prefer the features and cross-platform compatibility that Midishare offers, others don't want an extra layer between them and their MIDI interface and don't care about cross-platform compatibility, so they rather go with plain ALSA instead. To each his own. ;-) Albert -- Dr. Albert Gr"af Dept. of Music-Informatics, University of Mainz, Germany Email: Dr.Graef(a)t-online.de, ag(a)muwiinfa.geschichte.uni-mainz.de WWW: http://www.musikinformatik.uni-mainz.de/ag