[Openal-devel] Ownership and lifetime issues

[Jason Daly]

Garin Hiebert wrote:

> I don't think we should allow this.  If it's not in the spec, we can 
> add it.
>

I would tend to agree that it makes sense for the higher-level object to 
own the lower-level object (devices own buffers and contexts, contexts 
own sources, etc), and for the lower-level objects to be deleted when 
the higher-level objects are deleted.  It makes no sense, and it's of no 
use for sources to be around after their context has been destroyed, for 
example.  I'd suggest we update the spec to explicitly define the 
ownership hierarchy, and state that when a parent object is destroyed, 
then all associated child objects get destroyed.

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