On Fri, 2 Oct 2009, Liam Girdwood wrote: > On Fri, 2009-10-02 at 11:58 +0200, Jaroslav Kysela wrote: > >> >> I'm not very persuaded to merge such thing to alsa-lib (at least not to >> alsa-lib.so file - I may accept another library in the alsa-lib package). >> My comments: >> >> 1) configuration syntax >> >> - I know, simple text files are fine, but there are some structured >> things - we have already configuration parsers in alsa-lib for >> structured texts which can be migrated to XML some day >> > > I know XML is great for parsing but the main audience for this is > embedded users so we need to keep it simple (and small) with few > external dependencies. Not all embedded devices will ship with XML. I don't mean to use a complex XML parsing library with DOM handling. I wrote very simple XML parser in C on few hundred lines for another project so it's no issue also for the embedded platform. I just wanted to point - the structure of alsa-lib configuration files is very similar to XML. Jaroslav ----- Jaroslav Kysela <perex@xxxxxxxx> Linux Kernel Sound Maintainer ALSA Project, Red Hat, Inc. _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
