On Wed, 2004-11-24 at 23:31 +0100, Ole Laursen wrote: > Colin Walters <walters redhat com> writes: > > >> Trying to guess who is doing what isn't possible, there's too much > >> software in the world, so best to always assume no matter how brain > >> damaged an action is, that somebody somewhere did it. If Polypaudio is > >> used in Fedora then this API would magically start working again, right? > > > > Well, yes - but I would be against adding in a sound server solely to > > support hypothetical out-of-tree users of this API. > > I appear to be using gnome_sound_connection_get() in monster-masher > which is in Gnome CVS and part of the fifth toe. When I wrote sound > support for Monster Masher, it seemed to be the only way to play-back > cached sounds. I'm not sure, though, since the documentation was, > well, ... For caching sounds, yes, it is still currently the only way. But work is in progress on providing a GStreamer wrapper for this. > Not that I have a problem with porting my code, but it's not a > hypothetical problem. Ok, useful data point, thanks. Note that in theory a GNOME distributor could have shipped with esound disabled anyways, so it wasn't guaranteed to work.
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