Re: [Jack-Devel] The Situation(s) With JACK

Le 15 déc. 2011 à 00:32, Fons Adriaensen a écrit :

> On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 06:07:15PM -0500, Paul Davis wrote:
>> On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 5:36 PM, Fons Adriaensen <[hidden]> wrote:
>>> Still maintaining it for all those platforms means extra work,
>>> and less time for real development.
>>> 
>>> You yourself suggested in your original post that Jack's development
>>> should be driven by user requirements. Now ask yourself who are your
>>> users. I bet they are 90% Linux. And those have no interest at all
>>> in any Windows/xxx/yyy version. Go for it if you have spare capacity.
>>> Or make it a GSOC project. But don't waste any time on it otherwise.
>>> Even it that hurts.
>> 
>> JACK *already* runs on Windows. Stephane took care of this.
> 
> Jack2 runs on Windows. Jack1 doesn't. And it seems rather clear
> that you don't see the Jack2 code as a basis for the future. If
> you would then the 'Berlin path' should have been taken years
> ago and it wasn't. Given that
> 
> * you and Torben don't see Jack2 as the future basis,
> * Grame has no good reason to abandon Jack2 for an 
>  alternative C++ version,
> 
> it seems that you are condamned to either
> 
> 1. change your ideas about the Jack2 code base and abandon
>   Jack1 (unlikely),
> 2. or go on with Jack1 as it is,
> 3. or create a C++ version separate from the Grame one,
>   starting either from zero or from the Jack1 code base.
> 
> In cases 2 and 3, you don't have Windows support,


Not exactly: JACK1 still does compile on OSX, but all OS specific stuff (CoreAudio/CoreMIDI) have not been ported for a while.... The JackOSX package is based on JACK2 since early 2008....

So basically JACK1 is Linux only.

Stéphane 

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