[pulseaudio-discuss] Working with PA and jack

[Lennart Poettering]

On Thu, 28.05.09 12:31, Patrick Shirkey (pshirkey at boosthardware.com) wrote:

>
> On 05/28/2009 05:15 AM, Lennart Poettering wrote:
>> On Thu, 28.05.09 04:53, Patrick Shirkey (pshirkey at boosthardware.com) wrote:
>>
>>    
>>> I think it is useful that you have the internal api calls so dbus is not
>>> a requirement for communicating with PA.
>>>      
>>
>> I am sorry to inform you that eventually PA will use D-Bus for client
>> communication too. Already now building PA without D-Bus is not really
>> supported anymore (read: noone bothers to check if those builds still
>> compile).
>
> Thanks for the heads up. There is no desire to use an api that is not  
> going to be future proofed. Would you consider having a "pajackcontrol"  
> app that uses dbus to communicate with pa and provides the existing api  
> hooks to jack so that legacy jack and non dbus jack can still signal pa  
> to play nicely?

Nothing is future proof. I never made guarantees of API/ABI stability,
nor will ever make any.

The full switch to D-Bus won't happen anytime soon. Also, if we swicth
we'll keep the current protocol around for quite some time.

Lennart

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