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[Segin]

Mike McCormack wrote:

>
> Segin wrote:
>
>> aRts in and of itself is a b/uggy ha/ck, KDE is droipping it in the 
>> 4.0 release, Skype crashes if you use artsdsp with it and play sound, 
>> arts is also known to just segfault for no reason whatsoever. Best 
>> suggestion is to drop support for aRts entirely, it won't be around 
>> much longer.
>
>
> aRts is not the only library giving trouble here. Here's one caused by 
> ALSA:
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> http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4901
>
> Getting rid of aRts may cripple Wine on older systems, and it won't 
> solve the problem.  We can't rely on all 3rd party sound libs to be 
> bug free, especially since there's a lot of dodgy homebrew systems out 
> there built by people who *think* they know what they're doing...
>
> Allowing users to use the Audio tab in WineCfg without forcing 
> possibly buggy libraries to load is a better option.
>
> Mike
>
Well, can we at least put in warnings when aRts support is enabled in 
winecfg (e.g. a popup that states that arts itself is buggy and it's use 
is not recomended?)

Well, if we can't take support out, that there is a hell of a lot better 
than doing absoutly nothing. at least people get a warning when they do 
stupid stuff.