r6720 - packages/trunk/openal-soft/debian

[Andres Mejia]

Author: ceros-guest
Date: 2008-04-23 05:49:43 +0000 (Wed, 23 Apr 2008)
New Revision: 6720

Added:
   packages/trunk/openal-soft/debian/README.Debian
   packages/trunk/openal-soft/debian/TODO.Debian
Removed:
   packages/trunk/openal-soft/debian/TODO
Modified:
   packages/trunk/openal-soft/debian/changelog
Log:
  * Added new todo. Also renamed TODO to TODO.Debian.
  * Added README.Debian.
  Updated timestamp

Added: packages/trunk/openal-soft/debian/README.Debian
===================================================================
--- packages/trunk/openal-soft/debian/README.Debian	                        (rev 0)
+++ packages/trunk/openal-soft/debian/README.Debian	2008-04-23 05:49:43 UTC (rev 6720)
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+Notes about openal-soft
+=======================
+From the upstream website:
+
+    About This Project
+
+    This library is meant as a compatible update/replacement to the OpenAL
+    Sample Implementation (the SI). The SI has been unmaintained for quite a
+    while, and would require a lot of work to clean up. After attempting to work
+    on the SI for a bit, I became overwhelmed with the amount of work needed,
+    and I eventually decided to fork the old Windows version to attempt an
+    accelerated ALSA version. The accelerated ALSA idea quickly fell through,
+    but I ended up porting the software mixing code to be cross-platform, with
+    multiple output backends: ALSA, OSS, DirectSound, and a .wav writer are
+    currently implemented.
+
+    OpenAL Soft supports mono, stereo, 4-channel, 5.1, 6.1, and 7.1 output, as
+    opposed to the SI's 4-channel max (though it did have some provisions for 6
+    channel, this was not 5.1, and was seemingly a "late" addition). OpenAL Soft
+    does not support the Vorbis and MP3 extensions, however those were
+    considered deprecated even in the SI. It does, though, support some of the
+    newer extensions like AL_EXT_FLOAT32 and AL_EXT_MCFORMATS for multi-channel
+    and floating-point formats, as well as ALC_EXT_EFX for environmental audio
+    effects, and others.
+
+It should be noted that the last changes committed in the SI repository in the
+openal website from Creative were done by Chris Robinson (the upstream
+maintainer of openal-soft). Take a look at
+http://www.openal.org/repos/openal/trunk/OpenAL-Sample/ChangeLog.
+
+So in this case, it looks like openal-soft is the way forward in regards to
+using the OpenAL API.
+
+The upstream source is hosted in a git repository.
+Upstream-Vcs-Browser: http://repo.or.cz/w/openal-soft.git
+Upstream-Vcs-Git: git://repo.or.cz/openal-soft.git

Deleted: packages/trunk/openal-soft/debian/TODO
===================================================================
--- packages/trunk/openal-soft/debian/TODO	2008-04-23 05:29:21 UTC (rev 6719)
+++ packages/trunk/openal-soft/debian/TODO	2008-04-23 05:49:43 UTC (rev 6720)
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-* Get with all maintainers of reverse dependencies of openal and start testing
-  this new version of openal.

Copied: packages/trunk/openal-soft/debian/TODO.Debian (from rev 6719, packages/trunk/openal-soft/debian/TODO)
===================================================================
--- packages/trunk/openal-soft/debian/TODO.Debian	                        (rev 0)
+++ packages/trunk/openal-soft/debian/TODO.Debian	2008-04-23 05:49:43 UTC (rev 6720)
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+* Get with all maintainers of reverse dependencies of openal and start testing
+  this new version of openal.

Modified: packages/trunk/openal-soft/debian/changelog
===================================================================
--- packages/trunk/openal-soft/debian/changelog	2008-04-23 05:29:21 UTC (rev 6719)
+++ packages/trunk/openal-soft/debian/changelog	2008-04-23 05:49:43 UTC (rev 6720)
@@ -11,5 +11,7 @@
   * Support building of static libraries.
   * Added myself in Uploaders field.
   * Set libopenal-dev to depend on binary version.
+  * Added new todo. Also renamed TODO to TODO.Debian.
+  * Added README.Debian.
 
- -- Bruno "Fuddl" Kleinert <fuddl at tauware.de>  Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:05:18 +0100
+ -- Andres Mejia <mcitadel at gmail.com>  Wed, 23 Apr 2008 01:47:40 -0400