Fwd: Re: [Openal] alutLoadWAVFile

[Stephen J Baker]

Ryan C. Gordon wrote:

> To be clear, ALUT should be developed in the OpenAL CVS 
> repository...someone mentioned making it a top-level project...this 
> would keep it grouped closely with the rest of the project, but prevent 
> it from depending on a given platform's implementation.

I have no problem using the OpenAL CVS repository (although you might
want to consider separating it so you can give developer privilages to
work on ALUT without granting CVS write-privilages to the entire
OpenAL tree - and vice-versa).

What I think needs to be considered is whether separate release
cycles are reasonable.

IMHO, at least for the first couple of go-arounds, ALUT needs to have
a separate release cycle from OpenAL.  ALUT's shiney new WAV loader
*will* have bugs that need fixing.  If we are lucky, providing a
univeral 'alutLoadAudioFile' will encourage people to donate their
own MP3/OGG/RAW/.au loaders.

We don't want to have to wait for OpenAL 1.2 before we do that.

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