Re: future ALSA development

[Joern Nettingsmeier <nettings@folkwang-hochschule.de>]

Jaroslav Kysela wrote:
 >>
 >>other people might propose XML.  then it becomes to a question whether
 >>alsa-lib should rely on other libs...
 >
 >
 > I think that XML is too overkill for our purposes.
 >
 > 						Jaroslav
 >

true if you only consider alsa. but on most systems, libxml2 is there 
anyway. <underwear type="asbestos">and imvho xml is less a matter of 
taste than lisp.</underwear> and xml is way easier to handle in other 
contexts (i'm thinking of auto.configuration stuff etc.)
otoh, the embedded guys will probably not like it, but then memory is 
becoming cheaper by the minute, and its additional size will be a moot 
point in the very near future.



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