Re: [Jack-Devel] major change in jack1 MIDI handling

On Sat, 12 Oct 2013 20:48:36 +0200
Christian Schoenebeck <[hidden]> wrote:

> And with distros it's a nightmare. Some distros use JACK1, some
> JACK2, some ship both, but then they are not optimally packaged,
> which regularly causes a newly compiled app to crash, because it
> compiled and linked against JACKx, while accessing server JACKy at
> runtime, which sometimes is hard to resolve. And if you want to
> switch from one JACK to the other, you might need to recompile half
> of your system.

I've never known this to be the case.  Yes some distros break Jack and
have been doing it for years.  Other related problems are/have been
pulse audio interaction and realtime patched kernels.

But afaik jack1 and jack2 are api and abi compatible, and I've switched
between the two on numerous occasions with no bigger problem than
having to restart programs.  Never have I had to recompile software for
use with one or the other.

-- 

   Joakim

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