jack-example-tools release 1

Signed-off-by: falkTX <[email protected]>

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+title: "jack-example-tools release 1"
+author: "falkTX"
+date: "2022-01-15T17:40:48+0000"
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+After years of them seeing no changes, the JACK2 example clients and tools have finally been synced with JACK1.
+We only needed [PipeWire](https://pipewire.org/) to come along and force us to do it. :)  
+I mentioned the need to merge/sync the JACK1 and JACK2 headers and tools
+[quite some months ago](https://jackaudio.org/news/2020/10/15/jack2-v1915-release-and-current-status.html),
+but there wasn't much progress on that until very recently.
+
+For an explanation, Linux distributions like Arch that do not typically split packages (hypothetically)
+installing `pipewire-jack` would remove `jack2` and replace it with PipeWire's version.
+But tools like `jack_connect`, `jack_wait`, etc are part of the `jack2` package, not `pipewire-jack`.
+Installing `pipewire-jack` would (hypothetically) remove these tools.
+There are quite a few set ups out there that rely on them, so a solution was needed for this.
+
+David Runge has started the effort of splitting these tools from the JACK repositories into a new one.
+The idea is that JACK will no longer ship with them, and they become an extra set of tools to install separately.
+This allows to switch between JACK versions (JACK1, JACK2 or PipeWire) and keep the same exact set of tools.
+
+You can find these tools in the [jack-example-tools](https://github.com/jackaudio/jack-example-tools) repository.