Is liboss dead?

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jan 19, 2008, at 23:41, Michael Franz wrote:

> I found liboss in the ports and checked out the home page http:// 
> liboss.sourceforge.net/ .  Is this project dead?  From the home  
> page I can get to OSS, which released the source under a BSD  
> license.  Is this new (the press release is dated January 4,  
> 2008)?  Has it been under a different license?
>
> What is the community feeling towards alsa and oss?  How compatible  
> are they?  How incompatible?
>
> I have tried to compile asla on darwin/os X, no success.

You'll have to ask the developers of liboss whether it's dead or not.  
I hadn't heard of liboss or oss until you mentioned them, and I  
hadn't heard of alsa until I saw it in the dependencies of icedtea  
when you brought up that you were trying to compile icedtea.