Re: Replacing Esound with Polypaudio?
- From: Lennart Poettering <mztabzr 0pointer de>
- To: Neil Stevens <neil hakubi us>
- Cc: gnome-multimedia gnome org
- Subject: Re: Replacing Esound with Polypaudio?
- Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 21:59:16 +0200
On Wed, 08.09.04 12:49, Neil Stevens (neil hakubi us) wrote:
> On Wednesday 08 September 2004 06:17 am, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> > Since the KDE people are currently looking for a new sound server as
> > well, I will also try to push polypaudio into KDE. A common sound
> > server for both Gnome and KDE would be a great asset. Polypaudio has
> > no dependency on GLIB, nor on Qt/KDE - this is a point that might look
> > very sexy to the KDE people. Polypaudio includes a main loop adapter
> > for GLIB main loops nonetheless. In fact I wrote some client
> > programs (volume meter and manager) in gtkmm using thsi adapter.
>
> Doesn't a lack of glib mean that this server will be susceptible to all the
> old C bugs that glib is designed to fix?
Sure. To the same level as every other non-GLIB-based
application. Such as most of the free software available today:
Apache, Samba, KDE, Emacs, Vim, the Linux Kernel, Postfix, .... None of
them use or rely on GLIB. ;-)
More seriously: there may exist bugs in the C libraries from different
vendors. But that is what porting is all about. Polypaudio uses autoconf,
thus is probably very easy to port to other operating systems.
Lennart
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