[Bug 10495] Wine should support PulseAudio

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10495





--- Comment #173 from Austin English <austinenglish at gmail.com>  2009-10-09 12:55:58 ---
(In reply to comment #166)
> Why do you assume a need for dropping winealsa.drv?
> If you really absolutely need to drop a driver to add a new one - drop the
> obsolete wineesd.drv in favor of the working winepulse.drv.
> 
> EsounD is EOL and PulseAudio is it's replacement. PulseAudio isn't going to go
> away, especially not on the large desktop distros - even Skype and Adobe
> accepted that one.

Wine supports more than just Linux...Esound is the easiest way to get sound
working on OpenSolaris, and perhaps others.

(In reply to comment #171)
> Sure, it's the nice way of doing it, but there are people waiting to use Wine.
> Those would really apreaciate a stop-gap solution like the working, existing
> winepulse.drv.

Like someone else pointed out earlier, stop-gap solutions are usually hacks,
and when a hack is in place, people are rarely tempted to fix it properly. If
you'd like a stop-gap solution, compile wine yourself with winepulse's driver.

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