ALSA-plugins & Torben's JACK patch

[Reinhard Tartler]

On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 19:23:35 (CET), Robin Gareus wrote:

> Hi *,
>
> This might be rather sth. for pkg-alsa-devel - is anyone here subscribed
> there? Does anyone here have a connection to ALSA-devs?

Not that I'm aware of, but you never know.. ;-)

> Torben Hohn has recently /greatly improved/ the JACK alsa-plug [1].
> His patch only touches src/pcm_jack.c [2]. It has not yet been merged
> upstream [3] but JACK users would really benefit from this.
>
> For 64studio I'm thinking about rolling a small package that simply
> diverts /usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_jack.so from
> libasound2-plugins until things have settled down upstream.
> That'd be a somewhat ugly solution but I still consider it less ugly
> than branching alsa-plugins downstream.
>
> Are any of you pro-audio packagers interested in helping out?

In any case, I'd suggest to file a wishlist bug against the alsa-plugins
package, so that the discussion is publicly archived at a more visible
place. In the end, the decision seems to me to the alsa-plugins
maintainers to make.

Cheers!

> Cheers!
> robin
>
> [1]
> http://lists.linuxaudio.org/pipermail/linux-audio-user/2010-October/073562.html
>
> [2] git://hochstrom.endofinternet.org/alsa-plugins.git
>
> [3] http://git.alsa-project.org/?p=alsa-plugins.git;a=summary
>
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