http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10495
--- Comment #241 from Ben Klein shacklein@gmail.com 2010-02-16 21:51:26 --- (In reply to comment #240)
If you don't agree, do NOT - I repeat - do NOT try to convince us of OpenAL or something else - this bug is FOR PulseAudio, not AGAINST.
Wine will be able to support pulse via wineopenal. *If* that proves to be unsatsifactory, then other solutions need to be examined.
Either way, nothing is likely to get into upstream sources without an overhaul of the audio driver architecture.