Re: jack still broken

[Thomas Bushnell BSG <tb@becket.net>]

Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org> writes:

> On Fri, 23 Sep 2005, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
>
>> Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> writes:
>>
>> > How else do you handle the case of a library which implements a line
>> > protocol (presumably Unix sockets, in this case), and that protocol has
>> > changed incompatibly?
>>
>> You implement the new protocol on a new port, so that both the old and
>> new jackd can be run at the same time.
>
> No, you design the protocol from the beginning to have the first token be a
> protocol version, followed by a magic number(which could be different per
> version).

Presumably it's too late for that. :)