On Saturday 22 March 2003 14:52, Peter Schultz wrote:One could go either way with this. Leave it for after 1.0, or grab it now and help build it up for a better 2.0. Or I guess we could initiate the ABSDSA and have support for both ALSA and OSS. Wouldn't this be even more work though?
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Hello,
just out of curiosity: Is someone working in MIDI support for Creative EMU10K1 based sound cards (aka Soundblaster Live!) ?
Regards, Julian Stecklina
Having a port of ALSA would sure round out 5.2 nicely, and would get you MIDI support: http://www.alsa-project.org/
I think you wouldn't really do anyone a favour, including the ALSA folks, if you went and made a port right now. The ALSA project is still not at 1.00 status and still quite in-flux.
OSS is on the outs. New applications that are ALSA only will soon be common, won't they? Newpcm is what, five years old? Whatever it is, it ain't new anymore. Of course, maybe I'm completely mistaken about the whole situation and all newpcm needs is a boost.
This can easily happen if we get behind a developer. ALSA has been sponsored by SuSE for the benefit of Linux, and there's no reason we can't pull together our resources to do the same for our OS. I'm sure someone will step forward to do the port if we have the cash for them to comfortably sit in front of their computer until the port is complete.
I'd appreciate sponsoring somebody to work on our existing newpcm stuff and add the missing bits and pieces much more. Donating hardware (soundcards and MIDI-devices) would probably help very much already.
What is the right answer? Does OS X have a completely proprietary sound arch? It would be nice to be able to work with what they've got too.
Pete...
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