[Openal-devel] Faster buffer model, and more random stuff

[Garin Hiebert]

> True enough. But it also needs to be considered that even if Creative 
> themselves aren't interested in implementing an extension, they'd 
> still have 
> to acknowledge it for the simple reason of enumeration values and naming 
> schemes. Since AFAIK Creative is the sole controller of what's deemed as 
> an "official" extension, if an extension like my proposed 
> format-selector was 
> made, we'd have to be careful with the selected values so that it's not 
> something someone else is or may end up using as well.

There's actually a fairly long-standing mechanism for handling this.  
Ryan Gordon set up a simple little database with UI over at 
http://icculus.org/alextreg/ (it's referenced from the bottom of the 
OpenAL Documentation page).  Through a set of queries, reserved values, 
extension names, etc. can be determined.  While I was at Creative, I 
added various items to that database to be used for extensions that 
never became core functionality (some did -- like the Capture extension 
for 1.1).

Feel free to contact Dan if you want something added there.  If he 
doesn't remember his username/password, he may have to contact Ryan to 
set him straight (and maybe there's some Creative entries which need 
updating?).

Garin