On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Kjetil S. Matheussen <k.s.matheussen@notam02.no> wrote:

This is a design fault in jack. Jack should
by default always autoconnect new ports to physical in/outs
when they are created. (first created port is connected
to the first physical port, and so on)

why the first?

I think this would have pleased everyone.

my reading is somewhat opposite of this.

i do agree that it would be good to define some "system aliases" so that it was possible to reliably and controllably discover *which* physical ports to connect to if autoconnect is going to be used.