From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail.posixcafe.org ([45.76.19.58]) by ewsd; Tue Sep 22 13:54:32 EDT 2020 Received: from [192.168.0.16] (50-83-76-92.client.mchsi.com [50.83.76.92]) by mail.posixcafe.org (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPSA id 335b58c1 (TLSv1.3:TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256:NO) for <9front@9front.org>; Tue, 22 Sep 2020 12:54:23 -0500 (CDT) Subject: Re: [9front] [drawterm] Pulse audio support for Linux To: 9front@9front.org References: From: Jacob Moody Message-ID: <6f3d942a-c0f5-e1d8-2fc7-81d1f65fb5a5@mail.posixcafe.org> Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2020 12:53:47 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.12.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-ID: <9front.9front.org> List-Help: X-Glyph: ➈ X-Bullshit: NoSQL shader-aware AJAX realtime-java out-scaling generator You're right, I admit that at the time of writing this patch I had little understanding of all the different UNIX sound systems. After learning more I don't think this should be merged and I apologize for putting it forward. Thanks, Moody On 9/22/20 6:34 AM, hiro wrote: > i finally wasted some time on ubuntu: > > aoss always worked > modern distros nowadays also ship with osspd, a userland oss > implementation with alsa and even pulseaudio backends. > > as drawterm is a portable software that is supposed to run on multiple > unixes i see no benefit in cluttering our stuff with pulseaudio when > there are more portable interfaces like oss and sndio that work > flawlessly on most distributions. > > On 11/5/19, Jacob Moody wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> I've got a quick patch to add pulse audio support in for drawterm. >> This allows for drawterm to show up as an application in pulse. I've >> attached the diff file. >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> -- >> Jacob Moody >>