Re: Polypaudio for Gnome 2.10, the next steps

[Ryan McDougall <NQG24419 nifty com>]

Just following here, trying to see if there is a decision to be made...

0. Everyone seems to agree that GNOME will only depend on the GStreamer
API, and never the polypaudio API.

1. Replace ESound with polypaudio immediately in the 2.10 desktop
release, since I am lead to believe that there is a compatibility layer
that makes this transparent.

This has the benefit of not breaking ABI compatibility, minimizing the
work required to refactor libgnome, and giving Lennart's code a wider
exposure so he can get good bug reports and sell polypaudio to the
distros.

2. Purge libgnome of ESound dependant stuff for 2.11. Retire polypaudio
from the desktop release, and leave the audio solution totally up to the
distro (while we depend only on GStreamer).

Effectively polypaudio was a handy compatibility crutch to take us away
from ESound.

What do you think?

Cheers,
Ryan