On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 01:51:44PM +0100, Jérémie Courrèges-Anglas wrote: > Alexandre Ratchov <a...@caoua.org> writes: > > > On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 04:01:03PM +0100, Alexandre Ratchov wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> emacs is able to play sound files, which currently uses > >> libossaudio. It can play certain .wav and .au files but it blocks > >> during playback (means that you can't edit files during playback). > >> > >> Is someone using this feature? or is it there because it compiled > >> by accident? > >> > >> Some suggested to disable it rather than writing the missing sndio > >> bits. I agree. As an emacs user, I couldn't convince myself that it > >> could be useful, neither I see the point of spending time on > >> maintaining it. > >> > >> OK to disable it? > >> > > > > As we maintain two versions of emacs, the question holds for both > > ;) > > I am ok to remove ossaudio from emacs 24. > > emacs 21 doesn't actually support playing audio files (look for > HAVE_SOUND in src/config.in and src/sound.c, OpenBSD is not > whitelisted). emacs 21 is merely linked against libossaudio. > > Here's a diff to stop linking against it, even though this port > shouldn't get in your (Alexandre's) way if it stays as is.
Perfect! Thanks. > Unless you plan to remove libossaudio completely? Maybe in the long term, once no programs need it anymore. In the short term, I'd like to make sure no programs use libossaudio for audio playback or recording.
