OSS Audio

[blubee blubeeme]

Thanks for the heads up, I am still learning my way around so I might ask
questions that don't seem to make sense sometimes.

Since there is no maintainer and the FreeBSD OSS is a fork [I'd assume] of
an earlier version, wouldn't it be wise to port over the new OSS 4.xx since
this page: http://manuals.opensound.com/developer/ossapi.html
lists a lot of benefits for the new 4.xx version.


On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 8:08 PM, Jan Beich <jbeich at freebsd.org> wrote:

> blubee blubeeme <gurenchan at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I'm looking at the information for audio/oss and it seems that the source
> > used is different than the 4frontversion.
> >
> > -----
> >
> > This port uses installation procedure that is very different from
> > the one used by 4Front and is not supported by them.
> >
> > -----
> >
> > The port also seems to lack a maintainer but a lot of work is being
> > committed by  jbeich at FreeBSD.org, mat at FreeBSD.org and a few others.
>
> Well, you've answered your own question. There's no maintainer to check
> which downstream differences still make sense.
>
> What is better maintained[1] and supported is FreeBSD fork of OSS -
> sound(4).
> See OSSv4 compatibility in https://people.freebsd.org/~
> ariff/SOUND_4.TXT.html
> Not sure why those bits haven't migrated into the manpage.
>
> [1] 4Front vs. FreeBSD commit activity:
>     https://sourceforge.net/p/opensound/git/ci/master/log/
>     https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/sys/dev/sound/?view=log
>