Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 03:01:00 -0500 (CDT) From: Tony Kimball <anthony.kimball@east.sun.com> To: luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it Cc: dkulp@neomorphic.com, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: rvplayer requires pcm for stable Message-ID: <13859.1435.550424.328251@avalon.east> References: <199810130415.VAA07618@board66.cruzers.com> <199810130515.GAA22400@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
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Quoth Luigi Rizzo on Tue, 13 October:
: we are not diverging, just restricting to a subset of functionalities
: covering a reasonable number of applications. There is compatibility
: on the main audio ioctls, and most serious (and not serious)
: applications do work fine.
You can't do any "serious" electronic music without talking MIDI.
That's the most "serious" audio-oriented application of a compute box
that I can think of, myself.
: People who want full support have three
: choices:
:
: * buy OSS; it's cheap.
: * contribute fixes. It isn't cheap.
I'd just like to point out how absurd it is to contribute new code to
do something the old code already does. People don't write code for
fun, generally, but to solve a real problem. When a satisfactory
solution exists, they generally make the wise choice not to duplicate.
And why should I expect my contribution to be positively recieved?
If existing working code is rejected in favor of non-functionality,
then isn't any new working code which restores function likely to
be similarly lopped?
: * loudly demand that someone else does the dirty work. It's pointless.
You neglect a fourth option
* loudly demand that the existing *working* code not be removed.
Whether or not it is pointless, absent some countervailing
consideration which no one has seen fit to reveal to this point,
it is the *right* thing to do.
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