Re: [Alsa-devel] Re: [OT] ALSA userspace API complexity

Hannu Savolainen
2006-01-10T14:05:00Z

On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, Jaroslav Kysela wrote:

> >
> > Then you can include a libOSSlib.o library in ALSA with all the OSS
> > emulation stuf inside.
>
> You should do the clear statement that the direct using of syscalls is not
> recommented for application developers. Unfortunately at this time, I
> admit, it would be very difficult to change the existing applications.
Sorry. That breaks backward compatibility with systems that don't have
libOSSlib (all current and past Linux distros, all BSD variants,
everything but systems with our official OSS package installed). Such
statement can be added in 2010 but provided that all Linux distros and
other environments having OSS compatible implementations add the osslib_*
routines within this year.

Best regards,

Hannu
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