Christophe Thommeret wrote: > Le mardi 18 septembre 2007 18:41, Aidan Thornton a écrit : >> On 9/18/07, Markus Rechberger <mrechberger@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> On 9/18/07, Manu Abraham <abraham.manu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> Markus Rechberger wrote: >>>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Why don't abstract the dvb layer from enduser applications and put a >>>>> general library infront which does that version check and tries to >>>>> keep things consistend to the end applications? >>>> It is a nice idea, yes. >>>> >>>> Two things, looking at >>>> http://linuxtv.org/hg/dvb-apps/file/4bca5d49c9bd/lib/libdvbapi/dvbfe.c >>>> >>>> * This idea of using multiple API 's was thought (It is effective , >>>> yes) You can use multiple API's in there >>>> >>>> * The down side is that user applications need to use this library >>>> >>>> Someone could ask, why the hell should we use your library. Well, that >>>> causes the headaches. >>> people who use alsa also use the provided alsa API, it makes alot sense >>> to stop applications to directly access those nodes. libdvbapi seems to >>> be the right way to start over with. >> I'm not sure ALSA is a good example - it's always felt a bit hairy to >> me. Part of the reason that people have to use alsalib is that >> important bits are in userland, and they tend to break in interesting >> ways. >> >> For example, I found that if a program using ALSA launches another >> program without closing the file descriptors correctly, sound playback >> breaks when the first program exits due to the odd way software mixing >> is done. There's various other annoying and non-intuitive ways that >> software mixing can break too. >> >> (I also get the impression that ALSA uses the library as an excuse to >> break kernel-userspace ABI compatibility, to the annoyance of distro >> maintainers. I can certainly recall several complaints about it on >> Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò's blog back when he maintained ALSA on >> Gentoo.) >> >> Besides, it's a bit late to try and do this now... > > I also think it's a bit late. > Kaffeine uses only the en50221 part of libdvbapi. > Other parts was already implemented when libdvbapi came out, and i saw no > reason to drop that working code and implement a libdvbapi wrapper class ;) > That clears it. Thanks for the clarification Manu _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
