contributor,
and if the internal API changes (as has happened between
0.80 and 0.90) and the driver is not ported, it will be removed from
the Makefiles.
That may be clear to the driver writers, but it won't make any sense
to users filing bug reports in Mantis because one of our supported
features doesn't work on their hardware.
what kinds of features are you thinking of? most of the
hardware-related features derive from the ALSA driver, not JACK itself.
If you really want to wash
your hands of all responsibility for this code, it needs to come from
some other package, *not* from JACK CVS.
that would be fine with me. we can package jack-audio-connection-kit
with just the core supported drivers (whatever they may be) and then
jack-audio-connection-kit-<foo> for other drivers. its a trivial
change to the Makefiles that i know taybin will love to do :)
--p