Re: JACK 0.98.1 in experimental
On 13 May 2004, Jack O'Quin wrote:
> My feeling is that we should leave this as an obscure feature for
> expert users to experiment with at this point. Eventually, full
> support will evolve, but that will take a while.
Agreed. Its a really cool and nice feature for the experienced user,
it will only work reliably for beginners when jack starts realiably for
everyone, which it doesn't yet. With a non working jack the automatic
startup would only cause more confusion.
Guenter
>
> > Of course there are ways that the Debian package could be patched
> > to enable this, but acting differently than upstream is always a bad
> > thing.
>
> I think that would really confuse a lot of people.
>
> > What is the design behind the .jackdrc format ?
> > Or is it rather an ad-hoc solution ?
>
> Very ad-hoc. Just a command line.
>
> > I think beside being useful for automatic server startup, it would
> > be nice to have jackdrc as a general configuration file, that also
> > works for the jackd command-line directly.
>
> I argued for that when this feature was first introduced, but didn't
> get much support at the time. I like the basic concept of starting
> the sever when needed, but am not thrilled with this design. But, I
> guess I can live with it.
>
> > It seems the settings are just stored as command line, which probably
> > does not scale very well, and it is difficult to parse, adapt and extend.
>
> That's right. At least it's well-defined. ;-)
>
> > Seems that qjackctl uses a different format and file too, then later
> > there will be LASH ...
>
> Right. Qjackctl will write it's command line in .jackdrc, unless you
> tell it not to. Maybe the UI can be handled adequately at that level.
> --
> joq
>
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