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From: Mart Raudsepp <leio@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: suhr@×××××××.org, proaudio@g.o, gstreamer@g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: New virtual: virtual/jack for jack protocol implementations
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2016 07:48:40
Message-Id: 1454917702.16852.3.camel@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] New virtual: virtual/jack for jack protocol implementations by Alexis Ballier
1 Ühel kenal päeval, N, 04.02.2016 kell 15:05, kirjutas Alexis Ballier:
2 > As its name does not imply, jack2 is not really the successor of
3 > jack1
4 > but rather another implementation of the same protocol [2]. As such,
5 > I
6 > don't think it is wise to add jack2 as an update to jack1 in
7 > media-sound/jack-audio-connection-kit but rather to add a new package
8 > (media-sound/jack2) along with a virtual that packages can depend
9 > onto.
10 >
11 > Proposed ebuild for the virtual is here:
12 > https://github.com/suhr/gentoo/commit/1aebd8e72ff4ff2665761fc3b07f796
13 > 945aa0943
14 >
15
16 Does it work with media-plugins/gst-plugins-jack too (as in, can
17 jackaudiosrc read from jack2 and jackaudiosink output to it)? :)
18 If yes, feel free to adjust deps there accordingly once you implement
19 the virtual, or maybe chat with miknix too.
20
21 However one concern with the virtual - if it is not interchangeable
22 (same library naming and ABI), then you have to rebuild things against
23 the other provider, and hopefully that can be set up to be more
24 automatic somehow; as the virtual will be satisfied with either of
25 them, so the user could exchange them without actual consumers linking
26 to it noticing. Some thoughts into that aspect, if even just some
27 warning to user, would be good.
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30 Mart

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