[Openal-devel] openal-soft

[Jason Daly]

Lukasz Pawelczyk wrote:
>
> Since it was my original sentence that caused a little controversy I 
> think I owe some comment.

I wouldn't call it controversy, just clarification  :-)


> Additionally it seems that my knowledge about OpenAL development was 
> too little to make such comments at all, I didn't know that Creative 
> opened it's implementation at some point in the past.

I'm sure you're not the only one with this impression, which is why I 
decided to say something.  I just want to make sure the people involved 
get the credit they deserve.


> The only thing that I had on my mind was the fact that OpenAL was 
> invented by Loki, originally for Linux, and at the end of the day 
> Linux ended with not the greatest implementation possible, while there 
> are quite nice ones for MacOS(X) and Windows. Thats what I originally 
> intended to say without making any bad comments.

The proprietary implementations are motivated by business interest, so 
they're naturally going to tend to be better.  The Linux implementations 
aren't going to be as good until there's more interest in them.  Of 
course, you then get into a chicken and egg situation, in that not many 
people are going to take an interest in OpenAL on Linux (or other 
platforms) until there's a decent enough implementation to start with.  
Recently, Chris has provided the "egg" in question and we've already 
seen traffic on this list pick up significantly because of it.


> I definitely don't want to start any flame.

I didn't intend my message to sound like a flame (I apologize if I did).


> I'm just really grateful to Chris for efforts in making this situation 
> much better. And since it seems openal-soft code is based on Windows 
> implementation and I suppose it's the one that Creative opened back 
> then (correct me please if I'm wrong), Creative should get some credit 
> for it as well.

Exactly right.


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