[Openal-devel] OpenAL SI platform/backend cleanup

[Sven Panne]

As far as I can tell, the Darwin backend uses CoreAudio, so perhaps
things should be renamed. Do I see a potential maintainer here...? ;-)

Regarding Solaris: In theory the OSS backend should work there, too, but
I haven't tested it and I'm not sure how widespread the use of OSS on
Solaris actually is. The current Solaris backend seems to use facilities
in <sys/audioio.h>, which looks similar to the OSS API
(open/read/write/close/ioctl).

Cheers,
  S.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas J. Webb [mailto:magusofthedark at yahoo.com] 
> Sent: Donnerstag, 29. Juni 2006 16:22
> To: Sven Panne
> Subject: Re: [Openal-devel] OpenAL SI platform/backend cleanup
> 
> Does Darwin use CoreAudio like Mac OS X does?
> 
> The OSS backend should work in Solaris, shouldn't it? 
> Provided you're using an OSS driver...
> 
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Sven Panne <Sven.Panne at benq.com>
> To: openal-devel at opensource.creative.com
> Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 5:25:34 AM
> Subject: [Openal-devel] OpenAL SI platform/backend cleanup
> 
> Unless somebody yells, I plan to remove support for the 
> following platforms and backends from the OpenAL SI:
> 
>  * MorphOS platform and backend (is this platform still alive?)
> 
>  * Darwin backend
> 
>  * Solaris backend
> 
> ...