http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10495
--- Comment #322 from Alexey Loukianov mooroon2@mail.ru 2011-08-08 08:13:52 CDT --- (In reply to comment #321)
OpenAL turned out to be no good for our purposes, so we went back to the model of writing multiple backends in Wine itself...
Stefan, thanks for clarification and the status update. It's a very good news to hear that PA support would eventually find its way into Wine, although I still prefer not to use PA at all on my workstation - it's still a lot of pain jumping over the show-stopping bugs here and there (for ex., multiple sound distortion bug in SSE/MMX optimized volume scaler when using multichannel output setups).