[Openal-devel] Packages

[Ludwig Nussel]

Matias D'Ambrosio wrote:
> On Wednesday 10 June 2009 20:47:19 Jason Daly wrote:
> > Andres' messages about the Debian packages got me wondering about Fedora
> > packages, so I went and looked.  Apparently, Fedora is still using a
> > 2006 checkout of the OpenAL-Sample implementation, which is a tragedy.
> > I'm glad Debian is up to date, at least  :-)
> >
> > I went ahead and updated the README files in the main svn root and the
> > OpenAL-Sample root to indicate that OpenAL-Sample is now considered
> > deprecated in favor of OpenAL-Soft.  I'm also going to try and contact
> > the Fedora package maintainer to let him/her know that they should
> > switch.  If anyone knows the standard procedure for contacting a Fedora
> > package maintainer, I'd be glad to know.
>  Well, I don't know the standard procedure, but a few days ago I visited IRC 
> channels for Fedora, Mandriva and Suse, they all know about OpenAL Soft and 
> are in transition or planning the switch

openSUSE uses openal-soft since version 11.1.
Current packages (also for Fedora and Mandriva) are available in the
build service:
https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=home%3Alnussel%3Aioquake3
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/lnussel:/ioquake3/

cu
Ludwig

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