[Bug 10495] Wine should support PulseAudio

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Sat Jan 8 20:47:49 CST 2011


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

--- Comment #300 from Alexey Loukianov <mooroon2 at mail.ru> 2011-01-08 20:47:47 CST ---
(In reply to comment #297)
> Says who? You are just arrogantly stating that as a matter of fact, hoping that
> it would make it a fact. It is not. It is just your private opinion not based
> in anything else. It is not even based on any argumentation. You are just
> stating that pulse can not be included because wine will not accept it, despite
> all facts and despite any and all argument that might have been raised.

It is well known who is that "who" when it comes to key decisions about Wine
core, code structure, future development direction, e.t.c. And, thanks God,
this respected person is not Ben Klein.

Still, despite Ben Klein sometimes acts like a troll the fact that Wine audio
subsystem is undergoing "A Big Rewrite" is absolutely fair reason not to
include any new subdriver into official Wine tree as this would only increase
the mess by adding unmaintainable pieces of code that would be obsoleted
extremely soon due to sound subsystem rewrite.

Unfortunately there's a problem with this "rewrite". It had been announced more
than a year ago that very soon there would be new super-sexy sound driver
introduced to Wine based on OpenAL and that this driver would finally bring
peace to the entire world. There were postings to this bug report telling that
this OpenAL driver would bring (almost) all other drivers obsolete (as OpenAL
is available almost on every platform out there) and that finally PulseAudio
user would come to a happiness by using Wine over OpenAL over PulseAudio. A lot
of time had passed since that tales had been announced but looks like there are
no any signs promising that this magical OpenAL backend would finally appear in
the near feature.

P.S. I hope I'm wrong with my view of the situation with the OpenAL backend and
it  would finally find a way into Wine codebase.

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