Stefan Dösinger wrote:
Am Freitag, 22. Februar 2008 01:50:09 schrieb Tomas Carnecky:
I switched my desktop to PA yesterday, got most apps working, and to my surprise even flash (netscape 32bit plugin in a 64bit browser). All apps that I need use PA natively, only Wine doesn't have a PA sound driver.
The point was and is that we don't want yet another half working sound backend in Wine. We will have to maintain the Alsa one because there are things PA won't be able to give us by design, like HW mixing and lowest-latency direct access which is needed for gaming.
HW mixing is overrated :) Current CPUs can do the mixing just as well, if not with a even better quality. I don't say it's useless as I'm sure professionals have a good reason to use high-end cards with high-quality mixers (but they should use wineasio or winejack anyway). Also, PA ideally only adds less then 1ms of latency, that's hardly an issue, even in gaming. Mind you, I don't say winealsa should go away, I'm just saying PA isn't as bad as it looks.
Of course, as you said, if someone has patches and intends to maintain it we're happy to accept it. But I think none of the current Wine sound developers(aka Maarten) has any intentions to spend time on a PA backend.
Wineasio is maintained as an external component, so I guess winepulse could be too. There are enough free git repo providers around.
tom