Re: sound in lua

[Adrian Sietsma <adrian_groups@...>]

ccos wrote:

> for a nice portable soundfile library, you might also have a peak at 
> libsndfile:
>
> http://www.mega-nerd.com/libsndfile/
>
> and by the same guy, secret rabbit code (libsamplerate):
>
> http://www.mega-nerd.com/SRC/
>
> and for portable audio i/o have a look at portaudio:
>
> http://www.portaudio.com/

thanks. i've downloaded portaudio and libsndfile (required by portaudio) 
to look at.
although cross-platform support is required (eventually), the question 
is this - is it better to

a) make a lua binding to an existing (x-platform) library, or

b) define a lua interface, and make a dedicated (simple) lua binding for 
each os as required.

option a) has a potential problem with library dependancies - luasound 
ver.x needs portaudio ver.y needs libsndfile ver.z ... but the code is 
out there and available.

option b) would give me what i want now, but
who does the other platforms ?
what goes in the interface ?

Adrian
(why is it that "interesting" ideas come when you're already busy ?)