Re: Polypaudio for Gnome 2.10, the next steps

[Colin Walters <walters redhat com>]

On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 19:22 +0000, Mike Hearn wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 14:00:19 -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
> > Right; but we have to nuke all of the esound usage from GNOME first.
> > The major user is libgnome.  It provides this API:
> > 
> > int gnome_sound_connection_get (void);
> > This one is not replacable with GStreamer.  We have to change every user
> > of this function in GNOME.
> 
> Sure, but you can't remove this function from libgnome, that'd be against
> the interface stability rules. It's a shame it's exposed in the API
> like this but live and learn.
>
> esound or something that emulates it like Polypaudio will have to
> be shipped as a deprecated legacy API until the next GNOME compatibility
> break, if that ever happens (no real reason to ever stop supporting the
> esound API, it's not that big).

We could still ship it, but it could just always return -1.  Personally,
I doubt any 3rd-party applications use this API, but I don't know for
sure.  Is anyone aware of one that does?