Re: [Jack-Devel] backend switching - another way

On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 09:10:24PM +0100, Robin Gareus wrote:

> This is some something i've wanted to have since years.. :-)

Same here.
 
> Pondering possible implementations: this will open pandora's box (again).

I already have a reputation for doing that, so I don't care.

> Conceptually it seems somewhat backwards but realistically I'm with
> Torben: it's not JACK's job and a session-manager could do the trick
> (emulate persistent ports). The downside: session-manager fragmentation.
> To avoid that, a common session-manager would need to be included with
> all implementations of jackd..

Abstracting the audio hardware (of which this is a one aspect) definitely
is Jack's job. I can't see make it sense as part of a session manager's
tasks.

Ciao,

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