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

On Monday 21 February 2011 23:44:40 Fons Adriaensen wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 11:33:26PM +0100, Arnold Krille wrote:
> > You seemed to limit your persistent ports to hardware-ports. I like to
> > remove the distinction between backends and clients and thus between
> > hardware and software ports. And I think that virtual/persitent ports
> > can be benefitial to other apps/use-cases as well as for abstracting the
> > actual hardware/backend.
> 
> I agree, but as my original post should have made clear, that
> is not what I proposed to discuss even if I like the idea.
> Abstracting the HW in this way is something that *could* be
> done given a bit of courage. Doing this with application ports
> as well is much more ambitious,

I don't think there is much difference between "persistant hardware ports" and 
"persistant ports" when it comes to jack internals.
I fear that if we settle for abstract hardware ports only, we do the same 
discussion in about two or three years of time again...

> it would have deep consequences
> and would leave little of Jack as we know it.

But it certainly isn't the end of the world (as we know it...)

Have fun,

Arnold

1298333418.31425_0.ltw:2,a <201102220110.02262.arnold at arnoldarts dot de>