[Bug 10495] Wine should support PulseAudio

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

--- Comment #401 from Michael Gooch <mgooch at kotoro.com> ---
(In reply to Rosanne DiMesio from comment #400)
> (In reply to Michael Gooch from comment #399)
> 
> > audio issues on these distros when run in wine, DESPITE  the distros
> > patching in winepulse support (
> > 
> 
> Doesn't that just prove that a winepulse driver is NOT the answer to the
> audio problems some users still have?

It certainly proves that having a solution cooked up by the distro package
managers isn't a proper solution. 

However, asking users to disable winepulse and go through considerable
configuration to avoid the audio stutter isn't really a solution either, its a
hack around a problem that hasn't been solved. It also stands a very good
chance of causing issues in non-wine apps if the OS or other apps expect pulse
to still be configured according to release-specs and develop accordingly.

If the compatibility were wine-native instead of hacked in, theres a chance the
wine devs' way of doing it would be far more efficient and better coded for the
way wine works as they have a better knowledge of the wine backend than the
distro package managers do.

Wine should just work, out of the box, without breaking in unexpected ways that
force users to dredge the internet looking for configuration options to fix
their system around this bug. If this were just a small number of relatively
obscure distros i'd understand the thinking, but the major distros have made
this switch, and wine now has to make a choice in how they're going to adapt to
it. So far, they haven't adapted at all.

If you want to try to influence the various distros to dump pulse I'd support
that idea, but chances are they're not going to.

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