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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. | ||
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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. | ||
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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. | ||
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You can find these tools in the [jack-example-tools](https://github.com/jackaudio/jack-example-tools) repository. |