Interesting article, games

[Benjamin Scott]

On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 7:15 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen
<rozzin at geekspace.com> wrote:
> Oh, not this again--half of those arrows aren't even pointing
> to the right places....

  One again, spectacularly missing the point.

  Say a programmer is used to MS Windows, where despite your flow
chart, it's all DirectSound or whatever Microsoft is calling their
object library this week (NET, I guess).  They are thinking about
Linux, so they look into how to play sound on Linux.  And they
discover the mess that Linux audio is.

  Should they use SDML, gstreamer, Jack, PulseAudio, ESound, ARTS,
NAS, ALSA, OSS, or who-knows-what-else?  The answer depends on what
distro you're using, what release you're using, what *fskcing window
manager* you're using, and likely whatever some jerk like me on a
mailing list says.

  They run away screaming.

  It's not a popularity contest.  Drawing competing diagrams doesn't
win anything.  We're still loosing that potential programmer.

  If you're rather worry about the accuracy of that flowchart than
worry about that programmer, by all means, feel free.

-- Ben