[Kde-games-devel] Making OpenAL mandatory for libkdegames

[Albert Astals Cid]

El Dimecres, 29 d'octubre de 2014, a les 09:56:19, Ian Wadham va escriure:
> On 29/10/2014, at 4:30 AM, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> > El Diumenge, 28 de setembre de 2014, a les 20:17:22, Anuj Pahuja va 
escriure:
> >> As per recent discussion and Ian's suggestion on using OpenAL in
> >> libkdegames, I wanted to ask if OpenAL should finally be made mandatory
> >> for
> >> sounds in libkdegames?
> >> 
> >> Opinions, people?
> > 
> > Since noone else besides Ian seems to care
> 
> It's not so much a matter of "noone else besides Ian" and "caring",
> but making a rational decision based on the issues and the evidence,
> which I have tried to explain…

Noone else beside you commented, hence my "noone else cares", sure people may 
care and not comment because they are silently agreeing, but man you don't 
need to get defensive on that.

> 
> The problems with KShisen appeared once more only a week or two
> ago.  See https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=339865, especially
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=339865#c2.  However the user
> had a KDE 4.8.5 version of KShisen (based on Phonon), whereas
> KShisen switched to KgSound (OpenAL highly recommended) in
> KDE 4.9, released August 2012.
> 
> > i guess you can go on and make
> > OpenAL mandatory and drop the phonon codepath.
> 
> OK, I will make the change in KDE 4.14 in time for the KDE 4.14.3 release.

No, sorry, you can't change dependencies in a frozen and released branch, this 
is KF5 only material and at most for Applications 14.12 release.

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> Anuj, please will you make the necessary changes for KF5.  I am unable
> to do that because I cannot (yet) get and test KF5 on my Apple machine.
> 
> You may also need to raise a ticket with KDE Sysadmin to ensure that
> OpenAL and libsndfile are available in KF5 on Jenkins, etc.
> 
> All the best, Ian W.
> 
> 
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