[linux-audio-dev] jack and alsa design issue

I'm writing an application that will use alsa in the common case, but be jack-capable. I'm faced with the following design question: Do I wrap the jack part to emulate the read/write of alsa, or do I wrap the alsa part to emulate the callback style of jack? In other words, do I push or pull from the audio segment of the program? As I understand it, alsa can be asynchronous but it requires using SIGIO which doesn't excite me. So I'd have to create another thread that selects and fills a ringbuffer. To adapt jack, I'd have a ringbuffer which is drained when the program pulls the audio. Adapting Jack seems the easier thing to do, but what do you think? -- .O. Hans Fugal | De gustibus non disputandum est. ..O http://hans.fugal.net | Debian, vim, mutt, ruby, text, gpg OOO | WindowMaker, gaim, UTF-8, RISC, JS Bach --------------------------------------------------------------------- GnuPG Fingerprint: 6940 87C5 6610 567F 1E95 CB5E FC98 E8CD E0AA D460