Re: API freeze release ... status so far.

[Martin Baulig <martin home-of-linux org>]

Christian Schaller <Uraeus linuxrising org> writes:

> Martin: On aRts/CSL and its use. Well there are two different issues
> here and the one I feel you (and maybe everyone here but me) is
> discussing is the 'API to have applications say 'ding' at certain
> times. When I last proposed the use of GStreamer in GNOME I got the
> comment that GStreamer would be overkill for such use. While I agree
> that a full multimedia framework might be a but much to enable apps to
> say 'ding' I think that it would offer some advantages too, like full
> soundserver indepence. But the choice of using aRts/CSL as the 'ding'
> API does not preclude using GStreamer as the basis for everything else
> which brings me to the second issue.

Well, of course you can have an esd backend for CSL.

My pluggable API is basically overkill since we could just link libgnome
with CSL and then write CSL backends for everything (esd, arts, GStreamer),
but I think having even CSL as pluggable backend will make things a bit
more convenient for non-sound apps.

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