I just checked devel (0.38.4 devel 2) on my machine, and that's exactly what it does. Try to use midiout, and you get:
putmidibyte not implemented, please report as a bug
I have just submitted it as a bug report for devel, should it be submitted for 'official' as well?
Jamie
On Sat, 2005-11-12 at 12:34 -0800, Miller Puckette wrote:
I'm not sure what to do about this... I patched the ALSA MIDI support from the "devel" version and can't tell, looking at the CVS log, who wrote it. It looks like alsa's MIDI implementation is wrong-headed (insists that outgoing MIDI be formatted by the application) and would be a pain to work around to get midiout to work correctly.
Probably the thing I should do right now is to print out a warning message about it when people try to use it...
cheers Miller