http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10495
--- Comment #173 from Austin English austinenglish@gmail.com 2009-10-09 12:55:58 --- (In reply to comment #166)
Why do you assume a need for dropping winealsa.drv? If you really absolutely need to drop a driver to add a new one - drop the obsolete wineesd.drv in favor of the working winepulse.drv.
EsounD is EOL and PulseAudio is it's replacement. PulseAudio isn't going to go away, especially not on the large desktop distros - even Skype and Adobe accepted that one.
Wine supports more than just Linux...Esound is the easiest way to get sound working on OpenSolaris, and perhaps others.
(In reply to comment #171)
Sure, it's the nice way of doing it, but there are people waiting to use Wine. Those would really apreaciate a stop-gap solution like the working, existing winepulse.drv.
Like someone else pointed out earlier, stop-gap solutions are usually hacks, and when a hack is in place, people are rarely tempted to fix it properly. If you'd like a stop-gap solution, compile wine yourself with winepulse's driver.