[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] PulseAudio audio output

[Luca Barbato]

Lennart Poettering wrote:
> 
> As I said: a less controversial name was something like a requirement to
> get PA into the big distros and accepted as future sound server for
> the desktop. And you don't think that this is worth the effort?

People anal about names should not work on distros... btw polypaudio was
a nice name and probably I could find a pathology related to "pulse" too
if I search a little.

> 
> Take it from the main developer of Polypaudio/PulseAudio: Polypaudio
> never gained much acceptance. The number of users was absolutely
> negectible and all of them have already switched to PulseAudio. How do
> I now that? The old ao_polyp hasn't been working for quite a while and
> nobody noticed.
> 

Most of the acceptance is related to the improvements not the namechange.

> 
> The PulseAudio/Polypaudio API was explicitly declared unstable in
> versions < 0.9. Only since 0.9 we declared API stability. I see not
> much point in supporting old APIs that were actually more "developer
> previews" than proper, well defined APIs.

That's why now you are getting distributed...

lu

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Luca Barbato

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