PSARC 2008/318 Boomer - potential issues

[Darren J Moffat]

Bart Smaalders wrote:
> Garrett D'Amore wrote:
> 
>> 6) This seems to be leading us toward the road that we should, once OSS 
>> APIs become available everywhere, deprecate the use of Sun audio for 
>> mixer and control applications.
> 
> 
> Your proposal seems to be a very reasonable approach for the
> next Solaris release: continue to support application level use 
> (playback, record) of  legacy Sun audio apis, but require use of
> OSS interfaces for systemic control.
> 
> Thanks for taking this on.

I agreed too.  One of the good and bad points about most UNIX based 
systems is the legacy and the multiple tools to achieve the same thing.
Windows and MacOS X are IMO the real competitors in this area and 
because of their legacy they can pick a single mixer program and make 
that the supported way.

I think we can safely do the same for OpenSolaris/Solaris.next by 
picking a single mixer API, ie OSS.

As long as playback from SADA applications works I think that is 
sufficiently good enough.  It isn't like the current situation with SADA 
apps and mixers is actually easy to understand or particularly useful 
anyway (especially on Sun Ray where it is just a nightmare of a user 
experience).

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Darren J Moffat