http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10495
--- Comment #393 from Austin English austinenglish@gmail.com 2012-11-14 19:13:51 CST --- (In reply to comment #392)
So, it's been a month since the last update about this... How are things going? Will winepulse make it into upstream? Has there been an actual collaboration between Maarten and the devs?
Patches have been sent, people posted reviews/comments. E.g.,: http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2012-October/097482.html http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2012-October/097485.html http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2012-October/097486.html http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2012-October/097487.html http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2012-October/097602.html etc. (check http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2012-October/ and look for dsound).
One of the patches was resent yesterday: http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-patches/2012-November/119914.html
Also, just for the record: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTIxOTg By the way, I think this should be changed to major, since the lack of sound in most (if not all) applications should be probably considered a "major loss of functionality for a wide range of applications"
Check the first comment, it's a feature request => enhancement.
Pulseaudio is supposed to be compatible with ALSA, which Wine already supports, and sound does work for a lot of use cases.*
*Note: This is not meant to restart the debate about Pulseaudio/Wine/etc. I'm explaining why, as a bugzilla admin, I'm not marking it major.