[Bug 10495] Wine should support PulseAudio

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





--- Comment #186 from Ben Klein <shacklein at gmail.com>  2009-10-10 19:49:19 ---
(In reply to comment #184)
> (In reply to comment #183)
> > You are aware that Wine cannot just support what is "common" or popular?
>
> I think I'm used to be aware that the use case for Wine is exactly to support
> what's "common" and popular - that's the whole point of supporting Windows
> applications under different OS', isn't it?

See bug 10000. Your argument means that Wine should drop support for OSX,
Solaris, Freebsd, etc.

> > API design has *everything* to do with code, because the code implements the
> > API design.
> 
> That way around, sure - sorry for being unclear. Just old code, that is simply
> scrapped when the API redesign comes, should in no way influence either the API
> design or the new code written from scratch.

But the old code is not scrapped, it has to be ported to the new API design.
Hence the reluctance in accepting *any* new audio drivers until the framework
is fixed.

> The only thing people are asking is to get a driver in vanilla Wine that allows
> them to use Wine well with current desktop distros until that golden age of new
> Wine Audio dawns.

winealsa and dmix. Done. It's not Wine's fault that distros like Ubuntu make it
difficult to get what really *is* the standard audio solution on Linux working.

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