Concerning the separate OpenAL32.dll thunk patch and OpenAL winmm driver patch

[Fabian Cenedese]

At 16:08 30.11.2006 +0900, Mike McCormack wrote:

>Nick Burns wrote:
>>The patches have been split in 2 one for the thunk and one for the winmm driver.
>>Have these patches been rejected?
>>(I still dont know how to tell that -- other than checking wine-cvs)
>
>"Rejected" is a strong word.  Perhaps you could think of it as "Alexandre hasn't been convinced that these patches should go in".
>
>Is openal32 a standard part of Windows?  If not, then is there a sufficient number of applications using it that we should maintain this code in Wine?

Vista drops DirectSound or better said, the EAX effects won't work anymore.
That's why Creative Labs switches over to OpenAL. So it might become
much more important in the future.

http://www.openal.org/openal_vista.html
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/81212    (german)

bye  Fabi