Re: GNOME Sound Server, was Re: GNOME sounds - which component

[Augusto Cesar Radtke <bishop sekure org>]

On 23 Jul 1999, Elliot Lee wrote:

> Because the needed features require a redesign, and the extremely grotty
> code requires a rewrite.

This is the point of my ideas in the first email, a rewrite of esound,
maybe I use my words in bad form. Isn't the time for this rewrite, until
GNOME multimedia applications still small and easy to recode ?

> They will be given the option of not doing so. We will support the esound
> API with a wrapper.

My idea was, each sound API (ALSA, OSS, others os?) is a plugin for new
sound server, and the esound wrapper can be a plugin too. 

GNOME claim to be portable to maximum architectures possible, but others
architectures could have others sound API, a plugin system isn't good for
adding new APIs support to the sound server?


   -augusto