[pkg-wine-party] 1.4: Obsolete sound backends, questions

[Austin English]

On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 5:26 PM, Michael Gilbert
<michael.s.gilbert at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 5:15 PM, Hilko Bengen wrote:
>> 1. Upstream no longer supports NAS, Esound, Jack, I propose to remove
>>   the corresponding binary packages.
>
> Seems appropriate.

Yeah, they've been dead since 1.3.25.

>> 2. oss4-dev is now needed for building the contents of libwine-oss.
>>   Adding it is an easy fix.
>>
>>   One could argue that for libwine-oss should be removed for linux-*
>>   architectures as well and only be kept for kfreebsd-*. While it is
>>   the default sound driver in the FreeBSD kernel, OSS4 is not part of
>>   the Linux kernel (though it is available as a DKMS module).
>
> It does no harm to keep it around on linux, and it looks like you're
> proposing to keep it with the added the oss4-dev build dependency
> anyway.

I'd support having it available on Linux as well. In general, Wine's
alsa support gets more use and tends to be less buggy, but having an
alternative doesn't hurt :).

>> 3. Support for GStreamer has been added upstream. What should be done
>>   about that?
>
> Lets add a package to support it.

Yes. It's non critical, it's used to play e.g., game intro videos by
native quartz/strnbase. Keep in mind that on 64-bit, you'll need
32-bit versions of the codecs. Last I checked (granted, on Ubuntu),
they were not available in ia32-libs. Hopefully this has improved
since then (I've been using 32-bit in the meantime)..

-- 
-Austin