Re: my personal wishlist

Kristian G. Kvilekval wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 01:31, Andreas Rottmann wrote:>
> 
>>While we're at it: I have thought about ripping out the most of the
>>'real device' output plugins in favor of libao. This would save us
>>quite a bit of hassle in the long term, i guess, since we don't need
>>to maintain all those 101 ouput plugins...
> 
> 
> Looks like a nice simple api.. doesn't seem to have a way
> to stop the sound (other than starvation) but doesn't seem like the end
> of the world.
> 
> 
> 

The plugins were never the problem with zinf really. It's how zinf 
communicates to the plugins that dont have safety checks for protecting 
zinf from races and overlapping signals.  That's why everytime we went 
and tried to fix a plugin, it never really fixed the problem, a 
different plugin would then exibit issues or to different people it was 
different plugins not working correctly.  I'm no longer developing 
"zinf" as it is, but i'd suggest working on seriously auditting the 
basics of zinf instead of continuing to work on top of one of the 
few/only things that cause zinf serious problems.







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