[Bug 10495] Wine should support PulseAudio

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

--- Comment #283 from volker.groeschel at sap.com 2010-12-09 03:10:59 CST ---
Yes it is about politics. But the world is changing over the years. Politics
should react on changing facts.

There are several major changes which should make Wine (aka Alexandre) rethink.

1) It is now clear that PulseAudio is not just one more audio system but it is
the mainstream audio system in LINUX.

Is it mixing, using of bluetooth or whatsoever. Users simply want to plug in
their device and it should work. When I hear music and a telephone call comes
in the music should be muted etc. There simply is no alternative available
which could serve all the required use cases better. 

All major Apps do now support PulseAudio at least good enough. Is it Skype or
Flash or whatsoever. With one exception: Wine

PulseAudio is still not one for all, e.g. for low latency you should fall back
to JACK, but it fulfills the 99% usage. Professional audio users and hard core
system geeks might not want to use PulseAudio. But for those it is acceptable
to change or build their system the way they need it. By the way, JACK and
PulseAudion did solve their interoperability issues, thus there is no need to
deinstall PulseAudio when you need to use JACK.

It is ridiculous to ask ordinary mainstream users to rebuild the hart of their
system to use Wine with proper sound.

And it is ridiculous to wait for some magical fix of PulseAudio Alsa. This was
discussed and this will never happen. It is technical nonsense.

2) Wine is officially on release 1.0 and higher. Thus it is not a construction
site for some freaks but a mainstream tool. Functionality is the key. As long
total cost of development is in a acceptable relation it is more important than
long term design issues. When Wine waits for the big bang for the audio sub
systems, functionality will suffer for several more years.

On the other hand there is working code, ready to use, proven in real life with
a dev willing to maintain.

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