On Wed, 13.02.08 14:26, R?mi Cardona (remi at gentoo.org) wrote: > > Also, libflashsupport is not exactly at the zenith auf API > > design or implementation. Dunno if it is useful as a positive example. > > You are a much better judge for this sort of things than most of us :) > But even if the implementation of libflashsupport sucks, it at least > gives "the community" the opportunity to fix or adapt proprietary > software to our new APIs. And _that_ is a nice idea which should be > encouraged. I really doubt that this can ever work properly. libflashsupport is not really that well documented and full of races. It is kind of guesswork to write a driver that works more often than it does not. There are still a couple of issues with the PA backend for Flash, but for most I fear I cannot really fix them due to the closed-source nature of the primary user. We really don't need yet another bad, incomplete, undocumented API design with just a single closed-source consumer. The ALSA API as an abstraction layer is still much better then this. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net ICQ# 11060553 http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4
