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On 2013-06-26 11:16, batinste wrote:
I guess that asking Ardour's main dev (Paul Davis, also one of jackd's devs) about the expected behaviour of a jack app would be a good idea.
i'd rather ask the entire jack-dev crew. while paul has written the original jack server, he is no longer the main authore of jackd2.
~$ pd-extended
4 seconds trying to get that there's no jackd running... Did i specified -jack ? No ! So why is Pd-ext trying to start it ?
most likely because you *did* specify to start "-jack" in your preferences.
but seriously: i don't think this is a very good example (most likely you were trying to prove that my claim that "pd should not try to be too clever" was incorrect in many cases).
what i did forget in my post is: yes, i would like to have an "-audio auto" switch, that will try to get *any* audio backend (e.g. jack, alsa, oss, dummy; in that order) i even think that this should be the default (e.g. when you start Pd with no arguments and uninitialized settings). but if the user specifies a given audio backend (e.g. "-audio jack", or "-jack" as we currently call it), then Pd should not do something else.
those who don't like the default "any" config, could specify multiple backends, e.g. "-audio alsa,oss"
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