jackd1, jackd2, jackd3, tschack

[Gabriel M. Beddingfield]

Hi guys,

I'm new to the list but joined to see if I could help with 
the {j,tsch}ack{1,2,3} issue.  :-)

On Sat, 17 Apr 2010, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 12:37:45PM +0200, Adrian Knoth wrote:
>> jackd2 shouldn't be considered the successor of jackd1, but an alternative 
>> implementation.
>
> Wauw!
>
> Please post a URL to some (more official) summary of the dispute if available 
> somewhere.

It's on the jack-devel and linux-audio-dev lists on 
16-Apr-2010.

LAD:  http://lists.linuxaudio.org/pipermail/linux-audio-dev/2010-April/thread.html
       http://lists.linuxaudio.org/pipermail/linux-audio-dev/2010-April/027285.html
       http://lists.linuxaudio.org/pipermail/linux-audio-dev/2010-April/027310.html
       (***) http://lists.linuxaudio.org/pipermail/linux-audio-dev/2010-April/027316.html

Jack-Devel: (must be a member to view archives)
             http://lists.jackaudio.org/private.cgi/jack-devel-jackaudio.org/2010-April/thread.html
             (Most messages are the same, though.)


> How about this:
>
> 1. Rename jack as jackd1, including empty transitional packages.
> 2. Try package jackd2 with libraries renamed to not clash.
> 3. Update jackd1 to similarly use renamed libraries.

If I understand correctly, the *only* packages that need to 
be virtual are libjack and libjack-dev.  The actual 
libjack-jack1 and libjack-jack2 would then have a dependency 
on the jackd implementation.

-gabriel