[OpenAL] API inconsistency between Linux and Windows

[Ed Phillips]

Hi Sven,

On Wed, 2 Nov 2005, Panne Sven BenQ MD PBM IPM TPS 4 wrote:

> Well, the "Linux guy" has to admit that (apart from some optimizations 
> by Prakash) there hasn't been that much activity in the Linux (or better 
> "Unix") part of the OpenAL SI.

So *you're* the "Linux guy"!  AHA! <evil grin>

What does "SI" stand for again?  I keep forgetting... "standard 
installation"?

> * Use automake and libtool for the Linux SI and clean up the autoconf 
> stuff. This will cause some breakage intially due to the various 
> platforms and build variants involved, but these are normal problems 
> during a transition phase which can easily and quickly be solved 
> (nightly builds on various platforms would help here very much => 
> *hint*). The motivation here is that the current build system is not 
> very maintainable and differs subtly from what is "usual" in many 
> respects. This should hopefully be finished around the end of this 
> month.

Let me know... I'll help test out the auto-tools building and I can 
generate binaries for Mandrake 10.1 if needed (possibly Fedora Core 4 - 
but won't be able to test to make sure the binaries actually *work* 
there).

> * Make the Linux implementation 1.1 conformant, cleaning up the 
> implementation during that process. This is probably not possible to 
> achieve in one huge sweep, so I propose to do it in a stepwise manner: 
> Pick a feature block (like e.g. error handling, context management, 
> doppler, ...), grab the 1.1 spec and compare it to the implementation in 
> a nitpicking manner. This is where some helping hands would be needed 
> most urgently and where a concrete time schedule is hard to give. So if 
> somebody would like to take a feature block, I'd be more than happy to 
> help, merge pacthes, etc.

I'll try to help with this as I can find time.  Just let me know when 
you're ready to begin, what sore spots need attention, etc.  I'm not very 
familiar with the code, and I'm swamped with mucho other stuff, so you'll 
need to "bear with me"... ;-)

Cheers,

 	Ed

Ed Phillips <ed at udel.edu> University of Delaware (302) 831-6082
Systems Programmer III, Network and Systems Services