ALSA [Was: Paris summit]

[Lee Revell]

On Sun, 2006-06-25 at 02:41 +0200, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="Lee Revell">
> 
> > I'm sorry, I just don't buy it.  The entire open source world uses ALSA
> > - why can't the proprietary guys use it too?
> 
> For the reasons I stated in earlier emails. I don't want to waste everyone's
> time repeating myself, so please just go back and read them.
> 

I did go back and read them, and your answer is just hand waving:

"The overwhelming response I get from ISVs is that the libalsa interface
is complicated - both for doing simple things and hard things. They
worry about API/ABI stability. It's relatively unproven, in particular
for ISVs... and that's what all the complaints are about -- Skype,
Flash, TeamSpeak, etc. On the other hand, OSS is dead simple for an ISV,
with zero dependencies. I do not blame ISVs for their choice, not for a
minute. I have every sympathy."

I wanted a detailed technical answer, not "It's complicated, they don't
like it".

Lee