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From: dmaddox@scsn.net (Donald J. Maddox)
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Cc: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>,
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Subject: Re: rvplayer requires pcm for stable
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On Mon, Oct 12, 1998 at 04:13:53PM +0200, Dag-Erling C. Smørgrav  wrote:
> dmaddox@scsn.net (Donald J. Maddox) writes:
> > On Mon, Oct 12, 1998 at 06:41:50AM +0100, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> > > the voxware driver is essentially unmaintained, unless we can find a
> > > volunteer (which i am not)...
> > It may be 'unmaintained', but it works perfectly in -current, even for
> > rvplayer, and it supports MIDI :-)  I hope very much that some multimedia
> > guru will pick up support of the Voxware driver, or add MIDI support to
> > pcm...  (I'm not a multimedia guru, before you suggest it :-) )
> 
> IMHO the latter is the better choice. Luigi's pcm driver is much
> cleaner and thorougher than Voxware. I will not cry over Voxware
> when/if it's bobitted out of the tree.

FWIW, I agree.  The only reason I can think of to justify the continued
existence of Voxware is the lack of MIDI support in pcm.


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