OpenAL adoption

Reinhard Tartler siretart at tauware.de
Thu Feb 16 17:07:49 UTC 2006


On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 05:37:52PM +0100, Thierry Reding wrote:
> > > I couldn't find a reference to the SVN snapshot you were talking about. Where
> > > did you find it? Wouldn't it otherwise make sense to include the 0.0.8
> > > version?
> > 
> > Oh, sorry. you're right, I mixed things. The latest version is 0.0.8,
> > released on Feb, 11 2006. Debian currently ships a cvs snapshot from sep
> > 2004.
> 
> I've started playing around with 0.0.8 and packaging seems straightforward. I
> guess it would be better to upgrade to an official release instead of
> sticking with CVS snapshots.

I fully agree.

> > the new tarball looks quite different to whats currently available. At
> > the first glance, you're right. They seem to not use library versioning.
> > Let's talk to them about that.
> 
> They do use libtool however, so it shouldn't be very difficult to get them to
> make the necessary modifications for getting versioning right. Are you going
> to take care of that, or do you want me to get in touch with them?

If you want and can do right now, just go on. I won't get to it until
the weekend.
 
> Besides that, the version I packaged didn't need many changes from what was
> already there. Except for linda complaining about 0.0.8 being less than
> 0.2005080600 that is. I also noticed that they don't provide ALUT with 0.0.8
> anymore, but have a separate release (now 1.0.1). I've started packaging that
> as well and will probably have something working tomorrow.

Great! I'm looking forward to look at your package in our svn. :)

Gruesse,
	Reinhard




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