Re: polypaudio renamed to pulseaudio

[Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>]

On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 00:06 +0300, Theodoros V. Kalamatianos wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Jul 2006, Lee Revell wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 20:23 +0300, Theodoros V. Kalamatianos wrote:
> >> the new PA
> >> project
> >
> > BTW, someone should tell them this is a TERRIBLE acronym - it collides
> > with the PortAudio project which has existed for years.
> 
> Actually I only used the acronym because I was too bored to write both 
> project names. There is nothing official about it, although AFAIK all 
> function names in the library do have a pa_ prefix...
> 

Yup, that bothers me too.  Also the fact that they seem to have
developed PulseAudio in complete isolation - they did not as much as
post to the ALSA list before it was done.  How do we even know it was
necessary to develop yet another sound server, rather than improve ALSA?
It reeks of NIH.

Lee



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