From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephane Fillod Subject: Re: Amateur Radio -> MacOS? Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 23:10:01 +0100 Message-ID: <20080131221001.GD5891@charybde.local> References: <1201798150.47a1fc062d0bc@mgtmail.com> <20080131184108.GR2537@mea-ext.zmailer.org> <47A230F8.5030403@sral.fi> <47A24377.8020905@sral.fi> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <47A24377.8020905@sral.fi> Sender: linux-hams-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Linux HAMs Tomi Manninen skribis: > Frank Brickle wrote: > >> Applications that use JACK move smoothly between Linux and OSX. They can >> also take good advantage of FireWire sound systems like the Edirol FA-66. >> Please see http://dttsp.org/wiki for an example of an SDR application that >> runs on Linux and OSX without pain. > > Yes, but IIRC, Jack is also callback based *) and that is the key in my > argument. Doable but non-trivial changes are needed. That requires > someone with the motivation and hardware to do it. > > This is not meant to be an excuse why ham radio software is lacking > from OSX (and I don't even know if it really is), just a possible > explanation why at least some soundcard based Linux ham radio programs > are not trivial to port to OSX. What about Libjackasyn[1] and jacklaunch? Does PortAudio[2], which is also callback based, have a similar library? [1] http://gige.xdv.org/libjackasyn/ [2] http://www.portaudio.com/ -- Stephane - F8CFE