----- On Jun 22, 2019, at 2:00 PM, Tim Schumacher timschumi@gmx.de wrote:
Both Debian [1] and Ubuntu [2] adopted packages for FAudio into their repositories for the next release (obviously, the next Debian stable release to include those packages won't be released in quite a while). Arch and Manjaro, being rolling release distros, support FAudio already, and Fedora supports FAudio since version 29 [3].
Is there any actual milestone set, that implies that FAudio has been adopted wide enough to rely on it?
Also, if I might ask, how comes that the main Wine project doesn't share the same concerns about FAudio that the Wine staging project has?
I can only speculate, but i guess since staging has the option of "patching away" the library, this is the easiest solution to avoid any troubles with compatibility perhaps? Wine-devel does not have this switch, since it is a required library, and without it, there will be absolutely no XAudio2 support (bad for a lot of games). Its a different story with vkd3d i think, cos using wine without d3d12 support is not "unusable"... Using wine without XAudio2 support would probably break too many games. This could have been solved differently with OpenAL as a fallback incase the library is not found, but there might be technical issues making this somewhat hard to implement.
The problem is ofc that it is a library that i guess is not too used for other things, so things move way too slow when it comes to implementing said library. Same thing with vkd3d. SOME new distro's will see this, but debian/ubuntu releases are in no way "experimental" in nature so unless there is "huge demand", it is probably not prioritized.
Sometime i guess someone decided that providing distro system packages directly from the WineHQ dl servers could open a huge can'o'worms, and won't allow it. Ubuntu luckily has "Launchpad" that ppl can provide said packages without having to build them theirselves, but slightly more hassle to depend on that ofc :)
Sveinar
[1] https://packages.debian.org/sid/libfaudio0 [2] https://packages.ubuntu.com/eoan/libs/libfaudio0 [3] https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/libFAudio
Tim