Re: gsoc2013 octave audio system

[Vytautas Jancauskas]

On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 1:37 AM, pantxo diribarne
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>> It supports more apis than listed there. Also nothing there is in
>> contradiction with anything I said. The fact is you still have to pick
>> the api somehow. And the way it is usually done is sorting the apis in
>> order of preference and going through that list until the first one
>> that is present on that system.
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> I see in that web page that a default api can be picked using
> "Pa_GetDefaultApi()". I think it's resonnable to have portaudio choose the
> default api, and let the user choose it among available ones if he wants.
>

Using that function is one of the possibilities, certainly. But then
again, octave has a use different from most software that uses audio
playback/recording. So I wonder if the default it chooses will be
ideal. But as a starting point it is certainly a viable option. I used
it in my little program too at first.