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

On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 2:48 PM, 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.
>

This is completely FALSE.

Jack1 and Jack2 remain API and ABI compatible unless an app has used
features of one that are not present in the other (which is rare).

I have routinely switched between Jack1 and Jack2 without recompiling any
of my JACK clients. I have interacted with many individuals on IRC who have
done the same, sometimes many times in one day.

If it doesn't work on distro X, then that is because distro X has
mispackaged things, and not in a JACK-specific way, but in way that relates
to a generic mistake with linking.

--p

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