http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10495
--- Comment #305 from Ben Klein shacklein@gmail.com 2011-01-09 18:30:13 CST --- (In reply to comment #304)
Well that's it; I've had enough of Mr. Klein's trolling,
Stating the facts as they stand is not trolling.
and it's clear that the people whose knowledge and opinions are actually relevant to the state and direction of Wine development with respect to this issue are clearly not actively interested in this bug thread.
Do you know WHY that is? It's because 90% of the comments on this thread are people saying "Pulse is used by Ubuntu and Fedora. We NEED a pulse driver." Never mind the technical details of what's actually going on at the moment with the sound subsystem (i.e., the change from winmm to mmdevapi); new commenters people keep using the ad populum fallacy. And it REALLY annoys me when they do.
I'm going to take a break from this pointless discussion and content myself with actually being able to use Wine on Ubuntu via Winepulse
Feel free, but don't expect any help when things go wrong. winepulse is still an out-of-tree patch and will not be supported by WineHQ.