Chris Robinson wrote: > On Wednesday 02 April 2008 03:26:40 pm Michael Stefaniuc wrote: >> Alexandre Julliard wrote: >>> What I really want is for all the people who are clamoring for yet >>> another driver to pitch in and start fixing the alsa driver instead. >> Right but you _cannot_ force people to do that. If they just go ahead >> and setup a separate Wine repo they can work on pulseaudio all the day >> and nobody can stop them. That's the OSS reality and git makes that very >> easy to do. > > But that still doesn't make it The Right Thing to do. Who's to say PulseAudio > will really stick around and continue to be useful? Phonon has a good chance > of that, too (as it's backed by Trolltech/Qt, and is useable on several OSs). > And I'm sure people said some of the same thing about aRts. But we know how > that ended up. > > And it's not even like PA's main feature (software mixing) isn't available > through ALSA (dmix). Sure it has some other features, but they're hardly > something that Wine needs to make such a shift for (most apps have their own > volume control, and people that need device hot-plugging can still get it > through the ALSA-PulseAudio plugin; or even the OSS-PulseAudio plugin). >
PulseAudio will take off exactly because Ubuntu is using it. > I'm sure I'm not alone in feeling like we're getting jerked around with audio > APIs in Linux (use OSS! no, use ESD! no, use ALSA! no, use PulseAudio!). IMO, > we have to set down and just pick something. > Right, and very understandably it looks like we've picked ALSA, while the distributions seemed to have picked PulseAudio. Thanks, Scott Ritchie
