[Openal-devel] last call: ALC_EXT_disconnect

[Chris Robinson]

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Subject: Re: [Openal-devel] last call: ALC_EXT_disconnect
Date: Wednesday 19 August 2009
From: Chris Robinson <chris.kcat at gmail.com>
To: "Ryan C. Gordon" <icculus at icculus.org>

On Tuesday 18 August 2009 11:00:17 pm you wrote:
> I never officially published this extension, so this is a last call for
> comments on it before I do so.
>
>    http://icculus.org/alextreg/wiki/ALC_EXT_disconnect

I mentioned it in a message to the openal list a few days ago. Overall I'm 
fine with it, except for the two issues:

I don't think it's necessary to specify the behavior of alcOpenDevice(NULL), 
as in question 3, as that's implementation/system behavior that is not really 
affected by this extension. OSX already does it without this extension, and 
having this extension doesn't guarantee that behavior.

And I don't like the idea of the enumeration strings only being valid until 
the next query for them. IMO, the enumerations should change only when the app 
calls something new, so existing behavior won't be changed and risk breaking 
apps that rely on it.

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