On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas
<pedro.lopez.cabanillas@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wednesday, May 12, 2010, Paul Davis wrote:
> > IMHO, the obvious solution would be for them to simply stop wasting their
> > time on PA and make an existing and better solution (JACK) better. ;-)
>
> i don't think you are clear that JACK and PA are attempting to solve
> different problems.
It would be nice if you make a similar public declaration about Jack MIDI and
ALSA sequencer.
http://wiki.linuxaudio.org/faq/start#qwhat_is_the_difference_between_jack-midi_and_alsa-midi
"The short answer:
Jack-Midi has been introduced to extend/replace alsa-midi
[...]
They currently co-exist."
Looks like somebody dreaming of world domination.
JACK MIDI, ALSA Sequencer and Pulse Audio are not related in any obvious way.
It is indeed true that JACK MIDI is "intended to extend/replace the ALSA sequencer". The problems addressed by ALSA's sequencer API are, so the JACK MIDI crew claim, better solved in user space in a manner substantially similar to the way that JACK MIDI attempts to solve them. I personally believe that the existence of the ALSA sequencer API is just a result of a combination of the limits of (and ignorance about the possibilities of) the Linux 2.2 kernel. If you don't believe you can do realtime stuff in user space (which arguably was true in 2.2), then of course you put something like ALSA sequencer in the kernel.
--p