[Bug 10495] Wine should support PulseAudio

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


Rotbart van Dainig <rotbart_van_dainig at lavabit.com> changed:

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--- Comment #166 from Rotbart van Dainig <rotbart_van_dainig at lavabit.com>  2009-10-09 09:30:54 ---
(In reply to comment #165)
> I think my previous statement wasn't quite clear. What I intended to say is
> that the only situation in which I'd favor a winepulse.drv is when nobody needs
> winealsa.drv because the pulse native API has become the a de-facto standard,
> and there's nobody who does not use PulseAudio.
> (I personally don't think this is likely to happen)

Why do you assume a need for dropping winealsa.drv?
If you really absolutely need to drop a driver to add a new one - drop the
obsolete wineesd.drv in favor of the working winepulse.drv.

EsounD is EOL and PulseAudio is it's replacement. PulseAudio isn't going to go
away, especially not on the large desktop distros - even Skype and Adobe
accepted that one.

The patches are there, they compile, seem to work (at least here) and they are
a solution to a realworld problem: Running Windows Games with sound hassle-free
via Wine on a modern desktop distro like openSUSE, Fedora or Ubuntu. And, to be
honest - those are the main targets for people switching from Windows. And Wine
targets exactly those people:
http://wiki.winehq.org/ImportanceOfWine#head-5de2e9203c0811bff87c77b0fa026f0b0753a117

Sure, when the new sound system hits Wine, all of that needs to be implemented
again. But a good solution today is better than a perfect solution tomorrow -
even if it's just a stop-gap solution.

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