Re: Proposal: replacing esound with polypaudio in 2.10

[Luis Villa <louie ximian com>]

So, besides that it is maintained and isn't esd (both of which are good,
of course), what advantages are there in polypaudio?

Luis

On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 19:21 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I would like to propose Polypaudio as a replacement for ESOUND in
> Gnome 2.10. Polypaudio is a sound server I have been developing for
> the last months. It aims to be a drop-in replacement for esound fixing
> all those problems esound has. For more information on polypaudio,
> see:
> 
> http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/polypaudio/
> 
> The two most important requirements for an ESOUND replacement are met
> with polypaudio: (at least I think that these are the most important
> issues)
> 
> - Polypaudio provides an ESOUND compatibility module. When this is
>   enabled polypaudio emulates an esound server, including autospawning
>   and thinks like that. The protocol emulation polypaudio implements
>   is not complete: some of the more esoteric commands are implemented
>   as NOOPs. However, all commands currently used by Gnome 2.8
>   are available. Keep in mind that polypaudio emulates the protocol, not
>   the library API: i.e. there's no need to patch, recompile or relink
>   any ESOUND based applications for usage with polypaudio. 
> 
> - There's now a polypaudio sink for gstreamer. It's curentely not as
>   featureful as the oss sink, but it is good enough for rhythmbox.
> 
> What other requirements have to be met for inclusion of polypaudio in
> Gnome? I am strongly interested in getting polypaudio in shape for
> Gnome 2.10 in time: so please, don't hesitate to criticize polypaudio
> and especially its client API:
> 
> http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/polypaudio/doxygen/
> 
> Portability: I develop Polypaudio mostly on Linux. There's some
> compatibility with OSX, but it is not merged yet. No, it hasn't been
> ported to Solaris or xBSD yet. However the package makes use of
> autoconf, so I expect the port is easy to do. Polypaudio has been
> packaged for Ubuntu by Jeff Waugh, a package for Debian is on its way,
> as it seems.
> 
> Lennart