http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10495
--- Comment #151 from Ben Klein shacklein@gmail.com 2009-10-07 18:15:40 --- (In reply to comment #149)
Sure what a crime from Scott to offer both, the 1.0 and the dev release.
"wine1.2" is a poor choice though. Even "wine-1.2" would be better. Debian has "wine-unstable" now.
Average users don't have any problems with the latency of a good configured pulse audio.
Except when using Wine, Skype etc. Hence the issue. And given that dmix does not suffer from these same latency issues, it's obviously a problem with pulse. Face it, pulse is virtually broken by design, and was adopted far too early by distros like *buntu and Fedora.
Professional users who need very low latency need JACK.
Or hardware-accelerated ALSA, which is disabled by pulse.
To ask 90% of the unexperienced user to deeply manipulate their system to have sound work in order to make it easier for a handful "professionals" sounds very wise to me.
Wine can't support a broken distro. If it's really so difficult to disable pulseaudio, it's not Wine's fault but the distro's.
There exists a dev who is willing and able to deliver a solution but instead of a welcome he earns only prejudice.
There have been specific objections to the proposed winepulse *code* (not just the concept) before and I as far as I know the few people who have worked on it are no longer attempting to get it accepted upstream. Patches have to be sent to wine-patches mailing list for review.