[PD-dev] separate the audio-backends

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Dec 9, 2012, at 1:19 PM, IOhannes m zmölnig wrote:

> On 12/09/2012 17:31, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
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>> Would it be possible to provide an alternative implementation for the same API as a built-in using this?  So for example, an alternate Jack or ALSA implementation in a loadable module?
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> (iirc) the current implementation allows us to overwrite/override a given backend by simply registering another backend of the same name.
> so es, you could provide a bug-fixed jack-implementation without touching the pd-code.
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> and of course, you could provide 3 different jack implementations (e.g. with different features sets) at the same time, by just using different API-names.

This sounds excellent.  I'd like to include this in Pd-extended 0.44.  Did you have a chance to look at the issue I reported in this thread where portaudio doesn't work on OSX?

.hc