On Wednesday 18 November 2009 18:29:19 Sebastian Kügler wrote: > On Wednesday 18 November 2009 18:41:36 Tom Albers wrote: > > Op Wednesday 18 November 2009 18:10 schreef u: > > > Hi! > > > > > > Colin Guthrie has been working on better integration of PulseAudio in > > > Phonon, but AFAIK it is now too late for getting it into 4.4, without > > > getting and exemption from the freeze. > > > > > > But IMHO (and Eike Hein, who reminded me about this issue :-), distros > > > will most probably just go ahead and patch in coling's work anyways, if > > > it isn't available in KDE itself. > > > > > > The KDE-module in question is kdebase-runtime (and also Phonon itself, > > > but that's another story). > > > > > > Another tiny snag is that it depends on an unreleased version of > > > PulseAudio (because whoever packaged up the last PA release forgot to > > > include coling's work), but I assume spring-release distros will have > > > an up-to-date version, so if we just check for the right PA version > > > while building, we should be OK. > > > > > > Mandriva's latest release already includes coling's work, so it has > > > already received a fair amount of testing. > > > > > > So before you all start going around in circles screaming "pulseaudio > > > prrrrfffft", if PA isn't available at build-time, all the PA-specific > > > stuff becomes nops (and possibly completely optimized away? I don't > > > have enough compiler-fu). And if Phonon is built with PA integration, > > > but the PA daemon isn't available for some reason (it crashed, or isn't > > > installed, for example), it degrades gracefully. > > > > > > I think this is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, > > > so help me God, but if I'm wrong, please correct me. :-) > > > > > > Or ask. Or grant an exemption, if you find the kindness in your hearts > > > to do so. > > > > A link to the patches would have been nice ;-) > > > > If there are good, working and tested cmake and ifdefs, I suggest we > > include it now, ship it in the beta and possibily in the first release > > candidate. If we get complains or unsolvable issues we can remove it for > > the final release if needed. > > > > Please wait 24h for other opinions, if noone objects or raises possible > > issues, please merge it in asap, so we can at least have some basic > > testing before we package the beta. > > Good suggestion. +1 >
Colin work have my 100% approval. I was there in the integration in Mandriva. I would say "go". -- Helio Chissini de Castro South America and Brazil Primary Contact KDE Developer since 2002 _______________________________________________ release-team mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/release-team
