7 Jan
2005
7 Jan
'05
6:19 p.m.
So the *x community should invent yet another audio
driver
API (in addition to OSS and ALSA-driver). Isn't the
situation already messy enough?
I do not see the necessarity of creating an other driver API.
But I see the necessarity to have a common audio API which is
based on one of the two existing driver APIs.
At this moment all Unix vendors (other than official
Linux)
are already behind OSS. esd works on top of it. artsd works
on top of it. Jack works on top of it.
All of them also work with ALSA.
All applications
(other than few alsa-* ones) are compatible with it. Even
significant part of alsa-lib has been ported to work on top
of OSS (this work started just about a month ago). So is
there anything that is still missing from OSS?
Some features and the freedom to use it at any time in any
environment.
The current draft of the OSS 4.0 *) specification is
available in http://www.fi.opensound.com/developer . If
there is something important missing? We can consider
adding such features in the near future. Comments are higly
welcome.
Well, somehow ALSA has been developed with reason.
*) The OSS version included in the Linux kernel as
well as
ALSA's OSS emulation are based on OSS v3.8 which is almost
10 years old. For this reason they lack all the new
features we have implemented during past years.
10 years is simply a long time.
I understand your point of view, but the train is already
running.
Best regards
ce