r6720 - packages/trunk/openal-soft/debian
Andres Mejia
ceros-guest at alioth.debian.org
Wed Apr 23 05:49:44 UTC 2008
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
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