Responses to my Audio API Guide

Post Syndicated from Lennart Poettering original https://0pointer.net/blog/projects/guide-to-sound-apis-followup.html

My Audio API guide got quite a few responses.

The Good

Takashi
likes it.
And so
does David.
Which is great because both are key people in the Linux
multimedia community.

It made it to LWN. I sincerely
and humbly hope this is not going to stay the only news site picking this up.
😉

The safe ALSA part of the recommendations will most likely be added to the ALSA documentation soon. The GNOME-relevent part I will be adding to the GNOME platform overview.

The Bad

Aaron
basically likes it
, although he appears disappointed that KDE’s and Qt’s
Phonon wasn’t mentioned more positively. Aaron is very fair in his criticism.
Nonetheless I don’t think it is valid. My guide is not a list of alternatives.
It’s a list of recommendations. My recommendations. I do believe that my
recommendations very much match the mainstream of the opinions of the key
people in Linux multimedia and desktop audio. Of course I don’t nearly know
everyone of the key hackers in Linux multimedia. But I do know most of those
who are actively interested in collaboration, whose projects have a lot
mindshare and who attend the conferences that matter for Linux desktop audio.

Also see Christian’s comments on Aaron’s post.

The Ugly

It wasn’t my intention to start another GNOME-vs.-KDE flamefest.
Unfortunately a lot of people took this as great opportunity to troll at the
various blog comment forums. I guess it is inevitable that some of those whose
favourite software is not listed on a recommendation guide like this start to
clamour about that. It’s a pity not everyone who thinks I am treating KDE
unfairly criticises that as fairly and reasonable as Aaron. Anyway, I humbly take this as a sign that
people do consider this guide to be relevant and much needed. 😉