[Openal] Help with testprog

[Sven Panne]

Well, the main reason for having "contrib" below "portable" would be
laziness: Hooking in a few new directories into the current build system
is a matter of seconds, while having a new "contrib" toplevel
directories means having a new configure.ac, Makefile.am etc. etc. But
the longer I think about it, the more I'm convinced that it might be
better to do the latter... :-P *sigh*

At least there seems to be no resistance against restructuring "demos",
and I think we can live with losing the history while doing that
(Thanks, CVS!).

Cheers,
   S.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: steve [mailto:sjbaker1 at airmail.net] 
> Sent: Dienstag, 17. Januar 2006 18:45
> To: Sven Panne
> Cc: Garin Hiebert; Prakash Punnoor; OpenAL list
> Subject: Re: [Openal] Help with testprog
> 
> Sven Panne wrote:
> > Hmmm, the more I think about it, the more I'd like to "hijack" the 
> > "demos" subdirectory and re-instantiate it in the "portable" module.
> > Steve has once proposed a very sensible distinction for SW 
> shipped in 
> > addition to the library itself, and I'd like to follow that (in a 
> > "contrib" subdirectory below "portable"):
> 
> Why below 'portable' ?
> 
> Shouldn't these programs work with ALL OpenAL implementations? 
> Therefore they need to be at a level on a par with 'portable' 
> and the other implementations - not a *part* of just the 
> portable branch.
> 
> >    * Test programs (no ALUT here): We should only use 
> altest, checking 
> > that everything in the current tests is covered there, extending 
> > altest if that is not the case. This should live under 
> "contrib/tests" 
> > and the old "tests" should be nuked.
> > 
> >    * Example programs (ALUT OK here) for people learning OpenAL: 
> > xldemo and panning2d fall under this category, and these 
> should live 
> > under "contrib/examples".
> > 
> >    * Demo programs showing off OpenAL features: We don't have these 
> > currently, but they could live under "contrib/demos".
> 
> 
> This is all good stuff - but make 'contrib' be next to 
> 'portable' - not below it.
>