Re: various EsounD-related questions

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 14:51 +0200, Rémi Cardona wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have a few questions about esound as I'm one of Gnome maintainers for
> Gentoo (esound being our responsibility).
> 
> 1) What's the status on esound being deprectated in Gnome? Does anyone
> have a global view of which pieces need to be ported to gstreamer (or
> anything else)?
> 
> Right now, we've been trying to make sure esound stays an optional
> dependency but we're not really sure if we're cutting features out in
> the process. So far, no one has complained to us... ;)
> 
> I know that pretty much everyone in the Gentoo Gnome Herd wants esound
> out and we could probably help out wherever needed, given a
> comprehensive list of things to hack on.

Most distributions still use esound's API but with Pulseaudio.

> 2) While I understand that my first point is a long(er) term goal, we've
> been having several issues with esound itself. We currently have to
> apply 5 patches on top of esound 0.2.38 to be able to build it.
> 
> It'd be great if those patches were applied in svn and a new tarball
> released.

Patches go in bugzilla...