Bill Nottingham wrote:
John (J5) Palmieri (johnp(a)redhat.com) said:
>I hadn't gotten to the point of looking at the code yet. I was going to
>make some test packages, see how it worked as an esd replacement and
>then go ahead and start looking at it. If it is as you say,
>impenetrable spaghetti, then I don't want to gain yet another
>unmaintainable package. Is it your position that the things that are
>wrong with Polyaudio would be harder to fix than just fixing esd? Or
>perhaps there are better alternatives around? If we can find a solution
>that is easy to integrate, maintain and audit I am all for that.
Well... direct alsa usage can handle the ESD stuff, as long as you
don't care about network audio (and someone may want to write a shim
esd-like layer for playback.)
How important is network audio, anyway?
There are lots of thin client installation,
it's important.