[Bug 10495] Wine should support PulseAudio

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





--- Comment #179 from Rotbart van Dainig <rotbart_van_dainig at lavabit.com>  2009-10-09 19:27:10 ---
(In reply to comment #172)
> Because the current architecture doesn't scale that well.

Obviously, right now it scales well enough to allow a working driver for
PulseAudio. ;)


(In reply to comment #173)
> Wine supports more than just Linux...Esound is the easiest way to get sound
> working on OpenSolaris, and perhaps others.

And GNOME just dropped EsounD in favor of PulseAudio.

> 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.

Those people also tend to point out that there will be a complete rewrite of
the Wine sound layer and all the drivers need to be rewritten anyway - so that
proper fix will happen anyway.

> If you'd like a stop-gap solution, compile wine yourself with winepulse's driver.

Sure _I_ can. Can those people switching straight from Windows?

(In reply to comment #174)
> ALSA isn't going away, not even on "small" distros like Debian and Gentoo.

As pointed out above, PulseAudio is a GNOME dependecy now, so even those will
ship with it sooner than later.

> Wine does not target specific distros.

True - Wine targets users switching from Windows to other systems, allowing
them to run their programs and games. Those users tend to switch to a specific
_kind_ of distros... and those being mostly the popular desktop ones.

So while Wine might not target _specific_ distros, it indirectly targets a
_kind_ of distros.

> The problem is that winepulse is not even a "good" solution - if the whole
> internal sound API gets rewritten to be more modular, then it's even more work
> to port a new driver over to it.

If it's a complete rewrite anyway, where's the problem getting a working driver
now for the old system?

> Maybe we should have a separate bug for redesigning Wine's audio API, and set
> it up as a blocker to this one?

Why? It works right now - a total redesign is a completely different matter.

(In reply to comment #178)
> It is an objection to the idea of dropping winealsa for winepulse. 

Good. Drop wineesd for winepulse, problem solved.

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