Re: libcanberra as external dependency

[Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org>]

Hi,

Le mardi 15 juillet 2008, à 01:36 +0200, Lennart Poettering a écrit :
> Heja!
> 
> I'd like to propose libcanberra as external dependency for GNOME
> 2.23.x.
> 
> It's a sound event library implementing the XDG sound theming/naming
> specs. More info you find here:
> 
> http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/sixfold-announcement.html
> 
> libcanberra's dependencies are minimal, it requires only ogg vorbis
> and whatever the chosen backend needs. (i.e. libasound on Linux or
> PulseAudio).
> 
> Please note that there is no backend for anything but ALSA, PA, and
> null. i.e. no Solaris support. Should be easy to fix though, writing a
> backend for libcanberra should is relatively easy, though not
> trivial. In the meantime those systems can use the null
> driver. libcanberra is designed to be portable to other systems
> (win32, macos), however no such backend exists.

Any opinion here? Especially from non-Linux people...

I'm leaning towards +1.

Vincent

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