Anyone interested in simpleaudio.d too?

[Daniel Gibson]

Am 12.04.2011 13:44, schrieb Michel Fortin:
> On 2011-04-12 07:18:39 -0400, Daniel Gibson <metalcaedes at gmail.com> said:
> 
>> Also you shouldn't write directly against OSS or ALSA but use SDL or
>> OpenAL or libao or ... instead.
> 
> The problem with intermediary libraries is that they require work on the
> programmer side to work. I think there is value in being able to write a
> simple program just by importing std.simpleaudio and having it work
> instantly without having to install any library or play with linker
> flags (which will be handled by pragma(lib) if you let DMD handle the
> linker). And it's also easier to distribute your app if it doesn't
> depend on dynamic libraries not installed by default on the system.
> 
> I'm not saying those libraries are not useful, only that they come with
> some complications.
> 

Err.. I didn't say "don't use std.simpleaudio" but "don't use OSS/ALSA
directly but some platform independent abstraction" - which could as
well be your std.simpleaudio :)