Re: Platform for Developer Documentation

[John Stowers <john stowers lists gmail com>]

> 
> I'm growing a bit sick of GNOME having to be in this "limbo" situation
> where it can't stick to any technology because downstream
> distributions choose not to ship some components by default.
> 
> PackageKit and PulseAudio are two projects that are pretty well
> aligned with the GNOME platform in terms of API technology and goals,
> they solve hard problems to solve, they don't have any real contenders
> (yes they have problems, but if we wait until they are perfect, we
> will never have a platform).

Forgive me if I misrepresent Lennart here, but I thought the PulseAudio
policy [1] was "use GStreamer, libcanberra or ALSA (if you know what you
are doing)", and then PulseAudio will keep out of your way. 

Therefore, for the purposes of this list, having GStreamer and Canberra
present is sufficient.

John

[1] http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/guide-to-sound-apis.html