Re: Polypaudio for Gnome 2.10, the next steps

[Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller <uraeus linuxrising org>]

On Fri, 2004-11-26 at 21:44 +0900, Ryan McDougall wrote:
> Just following here, trying to see if there is a decision to be made...
> 
> 0. Everyone seems to agree that GNOME will only depend on the GStreamer
> API, and never the polypaudio API.
> 
> 1. Replace ESound with polypaudio immediately in the 2.10 desktop
> release, since I am lead to believe that there is a compatibility layer
> that makes this transparent.
> 
> This has the benefit of not breaking ABI compatibility, minimizing the
> work required to refactor libgnome, and giving Lennart's code a wider
> exposure so he can get good bug reports and sell polypaudio to the
> distros.

I think the refactoring of libgnome to use GStreamer will happen for 2.10 not 2.11. It is codingwise not
that big a change and there is no good reason to delay it to 2.11. It is
not 2.10 is planned out tommorow.

Christian