[PlanetCCRMA] firewire support thru freebob?

[Gregory Maxwell]

On 10/31/05, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have not tried Freebob yet. I'm still studying it and looking around
> for a 1394 box to buy. However I think it might be a bit harder to use
> on a Planet box than some other distros right now. Freebob is
> currently delivering it's own customized version of Jack which you are
> required to use. I suspect that it's no big deal, but you'd have a
> harder time keeping an RPM distro happy when you try to remove your
> existing version of Jack to replace it with this one.
>
> I believe the Jack developers are talking about getting it into the
> main Jack distribution so that the Freebob guys don't have to do that,
> but it's not apparently there yet.

I went through their wiki and couldn't find an explination of why they
are building their driver into Jack. Whats the point?