[Openal-devel] openal-soft

Jason Daly jdaly at ist.ucf.edu
Fri Feb 8 08:45:21 PST 2008


Joseph I. Valenzuela wrote:
>
> I'll also add myself to the chorus of support for Creative in general 
> and Garin's role in particular.  Having some knowledge of the 
> particulars I can say that they've been consistently supportive from 
> the beginning.  The original Linux implementation was definitely not a 
> suitable base for future development (any shortcomings almost 
> certainly being my fault).  I'm glad to see that there are people now 
> able to dedicate time to OpenAL, and put their own individual stamp on 
> it.


At the same time, if it hadn't been for Joe and the others at Loki, we 
likely wouldn't have OpenAL at all!  It's easy to look back at an old 
code base and complain about its shortcomings.  It's much harder to get 
a project like OpenAL from idea to working reality.

-- 

--"J"

"I'm a castaway stranded in a desolate land,
 I can see the footprints in the virtual sand."
	--Neil Peart



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