[pulseaudio-discuss] [PATCH 0/2] Support for forcing old protocol versions.

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Colin Guthrie at 13/06/11 09:30 did gyre and gimble:
> 'Twas brillig, and Tanu Kaskinen at 13/06/11 07:05 did gyre and gimble:
>> Here are two patches that should be usable for working
>> around the protocol incompatibility of the N900 (maybe this
>> could be useful also when testing protocol compatibility
>> when making changes to the protocol?). The first one can be
>> used to limit the client protocol version and the second is
>> for limiting the server protocol version.
>>
>> The client protocol version is limited by setting the
>> PULSE_PROTOCOL_VERSION_LIMIT environment variable. For
>> example:
>>
>>     $ PULSE_PROTOCOL_VERSION_LIMIT=15 PULSE_SERVER=my.server.com paplay music.wav
>>
>> The server protocol version is limited by setting the
>> "protocol-version-limit" module argument of
>> module-native-protocol-*. For example:
>>
>>     load-module module-native-protocol-tcp protocol-version-limit=15
> 
> Ahh cheers for this. Was wondering if you were going to do this :D
> 
> I was wondering, would it make more sense to use daemon.conf and
> client.conf rather than modargs and env vars here?
> 
> The env var would still be useful IMO for testing quickly, but I can't
> help bug feeling the conf files is more appropriate for this kind of
> setting... perhaps that's just me tho'?

Jeeze... English is my first language... honest!

It's early :s

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