On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Stefan Dösingerstefandoesinger@gmx.at wrote:
Am Dienstag, 16. Juni 2009 13:41:26 schrieb Jerome Leclanche:
One of the problems is, every time one of these issues is brought up, we hear people complaining "But Pulseaudio should be a drop-in replacement! We shouldn't have to change our code". There is a major (and irritating) circle of blaming that comes up every time the subject of PA is brought up. If anything should be fixed first, it's the attitude people have with it.
<rant> s/PulseAudio/Wine. If Wine had the attitude towards broken Windows apps as the PA devs have towards broken broken Alsa apps we'd probably run 10 Applications with Wine and mostly rant about how broken Windows apps are.
Well, but Wine doesn't fix bugs for Windows programs. If a program doesn't work in Windows, it's not a requirement that it works in Wine.
I think that the PulseAudio developer means the same thing for PA. Some apps use ALSA in a way that cannot be expected to work. In other words: it probably fails on some ALSA systems as well.
Remco