ALSA driver

[Ove Kaaven]

On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Gavriel State wrote:

> Ove Kaaven wrote:
> > On 19 Apr 2002, Marco Pietrobono wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>  I'm starting to work on a native ALSA driver for wine. Since I
> >>remember that Marcus was working (or was planning to work) an that one
> >>too, I would like to know if there is already something to work on or to
> >>contribute to, or if I need to start from scratch.
> > 
> > You must be mistaken, Eric Pouech was working on the ALSA driver. This
> > driver is also pretty much complete, just bugfixes remain. Unfortunately,
> > it's currently in the cold slimy clutches (from the LGPL-Wine perspective)
> > of TransGaming staff, who might not want to part with it without getting
> > some of that glorious LGPL code in Wine relicensed in exchange...
> 
> Actually, we have no official claim over the ALSA driver - we offered to
> sponsor Eric Poech's development, but he asked that we put it into another
> sponsorship instead.

Hmm. I guess some of my attempts at humor failed here... I never said that
Eric had given us the code or that he couldn't submit it to wine if he
wanted to, only that someone at transgaming was trying to finish it, so my
message isn't strictly untrue, just very badly presented... I expected
Eric to explain the real situation himself, but I suppose I can try to not
add to the confusion in the future...

> It is true though that TransGaming's David Hammerton 'has his clutches' on
> the code - he's been working on it with Eric in his spare time.  That said,
> I just checked and while his hands are kind of cold, they didn't appear
> to be at all slimy.

Not even after lunch?

> David said that he might try to check it into the ReWind tree this weekend.

OK.