"Geoffrey A. Washburn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>       I thought arts depended on some the MCOP libraries that are part
>   of KDE?  Looking at the .info file, it appears you are correct.  In any
>   event, since it depends on esound as well, and given that no one has any
>   recommended alternatives, it might be worthwhile spending some trying
>   to investigate the problem with esound.  I never had any problems like
>   this with esound on Linux.  If anyone else is interested in helping me
>   track down this problem, let me know.

Geoff,

Sound is one of the trickiest issues on Darwin/OS X, due to Apple's 
introduction of IOKit -- a completely different model for device drivers,
when compared with Linux or the BSDs.  As a result, porting programs or
libraries from other flavors of Unix which involve sound is much more
difficult than the average port, and at present, many of those ports are
of relatively low quality.

There are similar problems for video, but fortunately X11 has been ported
and so provides a method to get stuff running on OS X.  However, this 
explains why "native" OS X versions of X11 apps have been slow to appear.

  -- Dave



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