Re: Proposal: replacing esound with polypaudio in 2.10

[Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus FreeBSD org>]

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Jeff Waugh wrote:
| <quote who="Lennart Poettering">
|
|>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.
|
|
| I fully support polypaudio as a replacement for esound in GNOME. I
have been
| packaging it for Debian and Ubuntu, and testing it on my machines for
quite
| some time now, and am *very* impressed. It's simple, robust, and
presses all
| the right buttons for me (libsndfile, libsamplerate, etc). Lennart has
even
| been working on a gstreamer sink for it. Rock. :-)

What about non-Linux OS support, though?  One of polypaudio's
dependencies is alsa-lib.  Will polypaudio work on FreeBSD and Solaris?
~ If so, I wouldn't mind seeing it replace esound myself.

Joe

|
| - Jeff
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Joe Marcus Clarke
FreeBSD GNOME Team	::	gnome FreeBSD org
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