> I've been hacking sporadically on the linuxaudiodev module for the last > couple of days. Initial results are in patch #645786 > (www.python.org/sf/645786). The main goal of this patch is to make > linuxaudiodev objects a thinner wrapper around the underlying OSS device > driver, while still providing some highish-level convenience methods -- > see my comments in the patch for details. > > There's a slight theoretical risk of backwards incompatibility, though. > Since this module has never been documented, and since its current > behaviour is such that doing anything really funky is severely > curtailed, I very much doubt this will be a problem. Is anyone doing > anything with linuxaudiodev more sophisticated than playing silly beep > sounds? Should I ask around on python-list to be sure I won't ruin > anyone's day with this change? > > Oh yeah: someone noted in the CVS history that the module is misnamed. > This is true; it should probably have been called ossaudiodev -- OSS is > the current standard audio API used by Linux and, I think, various BSDs. > It's also available for a bunch of commercial Unices. I recommend that you simply check in your new code as ossaudiodev and we'll mark the linuxaudiodev module as deprecated. --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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