[pulseaudio-discuss] Philosophical queries

[Mike Gran]

Hello-
 
Are end-user applications supposed to use the PulseAudio API
directly?
 
PulseAudio shows up as part of the GNOME SDK in the graphic
on the front page of http://developer.gnome.org/
 
But, it isn't mentioned in the overview of the Gnome platform
on http://developer.gnome.org/platform-overview/stable/
 
The API certainly appears usable for end user applications,
but I notice a complete lack of newb questions in this list,
which implies that it isn't being used that way (or that the
docs are flawless. ;-)
 
For context, I'm writing a toy 8-bit chip-tune soft synth,
just for fun.  I have some questions, but, I don't want to 
bore the list with newb questions if I'm supposed to be going
through GStreamer or ALSA API instead.
 
-Mike Gran