[MPlayer-dev-eng] supported ALSA versions

[Diego Biurrun]

On Fri, Nov 04, 2011 at 04:57:25PM +0100, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 11:06:15PM +0100, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > I looked into the baroque ALSA check in configure and noticed that we
> > support ALSA versions from 2000 (last 0.5 release) and 2003 (last 0.9
> > release).  While maintaining compatibility and such is all nice and
> > great a decade sounds like the timeframe when one can safely eliminate
> > cruft.
> > 
> > Am I overlooking something non-obvious about systems without ALSA
> > versions from at least 2003 (first 1.0 release)?
> 
> Well, I don't consider 0.9 _that_ ancient.

Gosh, what *is* ancient then? :)

> Also note that the ao looks like it works just fine with both, no
> ugliness at all.

There is some #ifdeffery, but I guess we can live with that.

> The ais on the other hand someone thought it a good idea to duplicate
> the whole file because of what essentially is 7 lines difference.
> I admit without someone to come forward to test it it risks being
> pointless, but I would like to keep 0.9 support for compiling and
> having ao_alsa.c.

I'm CCing Clemens, maybe he can add his opinion.

> About 0.5 and ai for 0.9: From my side feel free to kill it.

I'll go ahead.

Diego