Re: [Alsa-user] shittiness

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On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 08:21 am, Richard Kimber wrote:
> > > particular cards etc. it's all work in progress. Maybe it's not for
> > > you at this time (that's not elitist remark, alsa simply does not
> > > provide what you want _at this time_)
> >
> > I wonder then, why does it have a 1.x version number?

Only just, after 5 years. The v1.0 status mainly signifies that the
lower level programers API will not change, at least significantly,
and that it is now Ok for all linux audio developers to dive in and 
use ALSA, particularly the ones that have held back from converting
from OSS to ALSA because of the changing API in the past (0.5->0.9).

> And why it has been incorporated into a stable kernel.

So that you and I and the rest of us will test both the kernel and
ALSA, and the kernel+ALSA, under various hardware conditions that 
will never happen until either is declared "stable". Allow about 1/2 
a year for both, and the combination of both, to truly stablize. 
It may seem like a non-professional way to go about it but in the
larger scheme of things, where some of us have been waiting _years_
(let alone those who have been doing the actual work) for a single 
truly open source audio environment, it's getting very close to being
the ultimate system "we" have been waiting for.

Rather than look at the incompleteless of either "product" try feeling
warm and fuzzy that we are part of the process of making both of them
better simply by using them and reporting bugs, and helping others when 
and where we can, in whatever way we can.

--markc