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List:       linux-audio-dev
Subject:    Re: [LAD] Source code for Open Sound System now available under GPLv2
From:       Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas <pedro.lopez.cabanillas () gmail ! com>
Date:       2007-06-14 17:23:22
Message-ID: 200706141923.22801.pedro.lopez.cabanillas () gmail ! com
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On Thursday, 14 June 2007 00:41, pete shorthose wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 00:42 +0300, Hannu Savolainen wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > Now it has happened. Open Sound System is finally open sourced.
>
> http://4front-tech.com/hannublog/?p=5

Quote1:
	"However the ALSA API is still almost completely undocumented 
	(after three years of it's release) so how can anybody expect 
	that programmers could develop good applications based on it."

Quote2:
	"For the above reasons the benefits of OSS are widely ignored:
	[...]
	* It's fully documented (OTOH some parts of the documentation 
	are still under construction)."

Yeah. The ALSA API is also fully documented, but some parts are still in a 
work in progress state...

What happened to MIDI/sequencer?
http://4front-tech.com/hannublog/?p=6

Quote3:
	"The real problems started few months after that when I tried to 
	document the sequencer/music interface.  [...] Due to lack of 
	time I gave up but promised to write the documentation later."

Quote4:
	"The bad news is that there is no MIDI support in OSS 4.0. There 
	are few bugs in the MIDI code and we decided to ship OSS 4.0 
	without it [...] MIDI support will be included in OSS 4.1 
	(hopefully within this year)."

OK, lets talk about MIDI after some months.

Regards,
Pedro
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