On 24.01.2019 07:38, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > Hi, > >>> https://xkcd.com/927/ >> >> There is a different context on BSD than on Linux. We can choose one >> solution and switch to it literally all the software keeping everything >> in a single ports tree. >> >> This is what happened on OpenBSD. >> >> The result is that almost everything uses sndio, and pulseaudio is far >> behind in adoption in any distro. > > I'm not going to join the sndio vs. pulse discussion. > > But from a maintenance point of view it sucks big time to have a bunch > of ways to play sound, and everybody uses a different one so you have to > maintain a backend for each of those methods. > > Maybe we should outsource that problem. Write a gstreamer backend, then > delete oss/alsa/sdl/pulse/whatever backends and let gstreamer handle > that mess ... >
Just please leave it to OS maintainers. There is no fragmentation in BSD distributions so sndio isn't different to native sound system on Darwin or Windows and I see no complains that Windows does not adapt PulseAudio. (Probably the only practical difference is BSD being open-source.) > cheers, > Gerd >
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