Re: Proposal: replacing esound with polypaudio in 2.10

[Lennart Poettering <mztabzr 0pointer de>]

On Tue, 02.11.04 11:00, Callum McKenzie (callum physics otago ac nz) wrote:

> 
> On Mon, 2004-11-01 at 21:42 +0000, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > On Mon, 2004-11-01 at 20:55 +0000, Sander Vesik wrote:
> > > "should work" and "minor patching" more often than not end up being "requires major
> > > surgery".
> > 
> > Minor patching is minor patching. Polyaudio has an OSS backend, and all
> > the free *BSD have OSS has a backend. So there's no problems there.
> 
> What is the full list of operating systems esd supports ? Should
> polyaudio have an esd backend for the ultimate in stop-gap
> compatibility/insanity ? 

The current list of supported operating systems by polypaudio is:

Linux/OSS
Linux/ALSA
FreeBSD/OSS

And to some degree MacOSX (no output driver yet, but you seem to be able
to use it as null sink. This entry probably doesn't count.)

According to esd's README the following operating systems are
supported by it:

Linux/OSS
Linux/ALSA
Solaris
HPUX
*BSD
IRIX

Yes, I am more than interested in a port of Polypaudio to Solaris, but
until now, noone stepped up to do it. ;-(

It's funny how many people seem to be interested in an ESD
backend. Although I consider this a bad idea (you loose most of what
you gain through using polypaudio by using it on top of esd), I will
eventually add a driver for it. Unfortunately my todo list is
currently jammed with items regarding polypaudio.

Lennart

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