Re: Proposal: replacing esound with polypaudio in 2.10

[Sander Vesik <sander_traveling yahoo co uk>]

 --- Lennart Poettering <mztabzr 0pointer de> wrote: 
> On Thu, 28.10.04 14:36, Joe Marcus Clarke (marcus FreeBSD org) wrote:
> 
> > What about non-Linux OS support, though?  One of polypaudio's
> > dependencies is alsa-lib.  Will polypaudio work on FreeBSD and Solaris?
> > ~ If so, I wouldn't mind seeing it replace esound myself.
> 
> As I wrote earlier: someone has done some work in porting it to
> macosx, but this is incomplete. Currently, polypaudio compiles on
> linux only. It should compile on FreeBSD with only minor
> patching. Feel free to contribute such patches! ;-)
> 

"should work" and "minor patching" more often than not end up being "requires major
surgery".

> The ALSA dependency is not mandatory. Polypaudio has a modular
> design. If no ALSA is available, the ALSA modules is not built. That's
> it.
> 
> Lennart
> 
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