[PD] [PD-dev] Why not use portaudio per default?

Christof Ressi info at christofressi.com
Fri Jan 21 18:12:03 CET 2022


>> What about OSS? I understand that it's legacy, so maybe we can just 
>> use the portaudio implementation?
>
> i think the merit of OSS is that it allows to build Pd with *zero* 
> external dependencies and still have sound (and MIDI): no libalsa, no 
> libjack.
>
> this is probably also the most compelling reason for MMIO.

You can build portaudio with just OSS resp. MMIO support and get the 
same result :-)

(Not to mention that on Windows there are much better native options, 
like WASAPI.)






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