Paul, not to derail the conversation, but can you give us a little detail on what kind of problems happen in scenarios outside of the desktop environment? I am just curious.
On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 5:52 PM, Markus Seeber < markus.see...@spectralbird.de> wrote: > On 09/23/2016 05:13 PM, Paul Davis wrote: > > The last time I was working with such a person was deeply illustrative: a > > small technology company doing audio on raspberry pi and beagle boards. > > Using JACK. Having an insanely hard time even getting it work. Even with > me > > sitting in with them. Their experience is common. Maybe even the norm. We > > never targetted JACK for such uses (focusing on desktop scenarios). > > Developers think it is cool, was developed on the same OS as they are > > running their new embedded platforms - awesome! Except ... not so much. > > > Exactly what I have experienced. It is all well for prototypes and for > testing out stuff, > but when things become serious, it all falls apart and people may notice, > that jack is not even a good fit for their usecase which may be better fit > by a small custom application. > > Also people have a hard time understanding even the "basic" concepts, > for various reasons. > > I have seen someone trying to build a simple processing chain for > streaming audio > and setting up a proprietary application as a JACK client. > That was interesting to watch. It took quite some time for him to learn > how to even build, install and use JACK > in a meaningful way, even with me providing some help. In the end it > worked out for testing > and evaluation purposes but I'd never seriously consider that ready for > production usage. > > This may sound harsh, but this stuff is simply not a nice choice for > mainstream production use > and so are many things in the LAU universe. > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-dev mailing list > Linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev > -- Louigi Verona http://www.louigiverona.com/
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