Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2005 09:59:05 -0600 From: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> To: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> Cc: 4Front Technologies <dev@opensound.com>, freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Syncing with 4Front Message-ID: <429DDB49.2060209@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <20050601135747.vza4dgehcc8ks0ok@netchild.homeip.net> References: <429CB532.2010601@opensound.com> <20050601135747.vza4dgehcc8ks0ok@netchild.homeip.net>
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Alexander Leidinger wrote: > 4Front Technologies <dev@opensound.com> wrote: > >> As 4Front Technologies gets ready to announce OSS v4.0 later this year >> (the 10th anniversary of OSS), we'd like to offer our assistance. > > > Since my personal opinion is to sync with the official OSS API, I'm very > pleased to hear that. What kind of assistance do you offer? > >> ALSA is way too complex at the API layer but still very similar to OSS >> at the driver level (naturally since they started from OSS!). We have >> developed a ALSA<->OSS library called SALSA (for Simple ALSA) that gives >> you some level of translation between the few ALSA-only apps and OSS >> compatible drivers and it's under LGPL and we can talk about BSD >> licensing it if you find it useful. See: >> http://www.4front-tech.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=296 > > > Since those apps which use ALSA most likely will be part of the ports > collection but not of the base system, I think this isn't really needed to > be adopted by us. SALSA can just be part of the ports collection too. > Actually,having an enabling API that is tied to the OS like SALSA seems to be is a very good thing to have in the base system. Why drive the ports team nuts with it breaking at the drop of a hat every time someone tweaks the kernel sources? I'm highly in favor of enabling technologies like this. It makes everyone's lives easier. Scotthome | help
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