MAS in KDE

[Neil Stevens]

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On Tuesday March 04, 2003 04:07, Navindra Umanee wrote:
> Stefan Westerfeld <stefan at space.twc.de> wrote:
> > To ensure interoperability between these (and further developments in
> > the area), one strategy that looked very promising is to use CSL as
> > common interoperbility standard between KDE and Gnome. This will not
> > only instantly
>
> CSL is a wrapper around a wrapper (aRts or MAS or SDL) to the sound
> driver.
>
> CSL is in C, so KDE will need yet another wrapper to wrap it.  (On the
> other hand if you wrote it in C++, maybe you could easily export a C
> API at the same time)
>
> Isn't this too much?  Aren't any time benefits with MAS going to get
> killed with all these wrappers?  Is it really that hard to pick one
> good future media/audio server strategy and commit to it? :-)
>
> Apologies if I misunderstood anything or if I'm repeating something
> already said.

You're repeating what I've said, but I think it bears repeating. :-)

We already know we are going to choose a system.  We will already have to 
wrap it.  CSL gives us nothing beyond that.

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Neil Stevens - neil at qualityassistant.com
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