Re: gsoc2013 octave audio system

[Vytautas Jancauskas]

On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 10:40 PM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On 17 April 2013 15:24, Vytautas Jancauskas <address@hidden> wrote:
>> The repository is here https://bitbucket.org/bucket_brigade/octave-sound
>
> Ideally, you should fix the existing playaudio functions under
> scripts/audio in Octave and you should work with our own source code.
> Your commitment to long-term involvement Octave will be more evident
> if you read our source code, use our build tools, and contribute back
> to our existing codebase. I was envisioning this project as fixing the
> existing playaudio functions in core Octave. Have you at least read
> those functions and realised why they are so poorly implemented?

That is not the consensus I am getting here. The idea is to
re-implement matlab classes audioplayer and audiorecorder. Yes I have
read them.

>
>> I added basic playback using portaudios blocking mode. It will only
>> work if you have pulseaudio on your system since it looks for "pulse"
>> device.
>
> What's the point of using portaudio and then tying it to pulse? I was
> hoping that using portaudio wouldn't even make you consider doing
> something like this. Perhaps portaudio isn't the best choice, if you
> still have to do things like this.

I don't have to do things like this. This is just a quick demo that
will work on most modern linux systems without problems, hence this
choice.

>
>> You need portaudio19 headers at least. This is just something
>> to get my feet a little wet. Compile by running scons.
>
> Scons? Why? We use autotools here. If you need help figuing out a
> basic autoconf file, you can look at other OF packages and their
> configure.ac files.
>

autotools are garbage with all due respect. But I am open to using
them if I must.

> - Jordi G. H.