http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10495
--- Comment #222 from Rotbart van Dainig rotbart_van_dainig@lavabit.com 2010-02-13 17:50:23 --- (In reply to comment #217)
This does not correlate with my experiences doing user support in #winehq.
You are arguing with subjective experience?
And your experiences don't correlate with neither mine, my experiences of distro-level bug trackers or the ones of either the people here nor the maintainer.
There was certainly marked improvement.
Maybe. Maybe not. Was it flawless? Because winepulse is.
The ball is not currently in my court.
Just remember for when it is.
There have not been two years worth of attempts at getting winealsa to work better with pulse.
That would be just as sad, but unfortunatly, it seems to be true: And that kind of history makes all the claims that "soon" winealsa / the new sound framework will work with Pulseaudio look like empty promises - because that's what people were told all the time.
(In reply to comment #220)
So please stop spamming about whether or not wine should support a pulseaudio driver, because there there is absolutely no point in this. Someone is already working on a solution that is far superior to anything you'd come up with in this bug report.
See above: That what everyone was told for at least a year now: The great big rewrite will come and eliminate all problems. We'll believe it when it happens, and, until then, we'd like to have working sound, thounk you very much.
Of course, if said rewrite comes, dropping all the old driver code for OpenAL, then all claims that it would be too much hassle to port the old drivers are moot, too.
The pulse-related patches to winealsa have gone in much more recently.
While winepulse existed and worked for at least one year.
Now, here's the technical reason: A native sink is better than a compatibility sink.
I would thank you not to put words in my mouth [...]
I don't need to. As others pointed out, too, the technical poit (even if it's hard to swallow):
WINE->PULSE->ALSA >> WINE->ALSA->PULSE->ALSA
[...] and do not attempt to turn this
thread into a technical discussion on the merits (or lack of) of pulseaudio.
That one, you did all by yourself.
This is not a certainty. From what I gather, it's app-dependent.
Then it _is_ a certainty that for some apps and games, winealsa will suck and winepulse will work.