Rekindle jack implementation swapping discussion (was Re: Request to join the Debian Multimedia Team)

[Adrian Knoth]

On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 05:06:24PM -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote:

> > Given the tons of C++ symbols in jackd2, I'd also suggest to make the
> > jackd1 package the official dev package and also the "donator" of the
> > symbols file.
> 
> I'm quite confused by this. AFAIK, jack is a pure C API, so C++
> symbols have no place in there. 

Yep. But jackd2 is implemented in C++, and these symbols somehow are
public or leak into the symbols file (also with -fvisibility=hidden).

> However, I understood from the last discussion that those are not
> really bogus, but are some sort of internal (server-lib) API, which is
> not allowed to be used by regular clients. Is this correct?

Exactly.

> Anyway, I really think that for jack it is much better to use a shlibs
> file.

I'm completely fine with a shlibs file. Makes things a lot easier.


Cheerio

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