Freeze exemption for PA integration into Phonon

[Sebastian Kügler]

On Wednesday 18 November 2009 18:41:36 Tom Albers wrote:
> Op Wednesday 18 November 2009 18:10 schreef u:
> > Hi!
> >
> > Colin Guthrie has been working on better integration of PulseAudio in
> > Phonon, but AFAIK it is now too late for getting it into 4.4, without
> > getting and exemption from the freeze.
> >
> > But IMHO (and Eike Hein, who reminded me about this issue :-), distros
> > will most probably just go ahead and patch in coling's work anyways, if
> > it isn't available in KDE itself.
> >
> > The KDE-module in question is kdebase-runtime (and also Phonon itself,
> > but that's another story).
> >
> > Another tiny snag is that it depends on an unreleased version of
> > PulseAudio (because whoever packaged up the last PA release forgot to
> > include coling's work), but I assume spring-release distros will have an
> > up-to-date version, so if we just check for the right PA version while
> > building, we should be OK.
> >
> > Mandriva's latest release already includes coling's work, so it has
> > already received a fair amount of testing.
> >
> > So before you all start going around in circles screaming "pulseaudio
> > prrrrfffft", if PA isn't available at build-time, all the PA-specific
> > stuff becomes nops (and possibly completely optimized away? I don't have
> > enough compiler-fu). And if Phonon is built with PA integration, but the
> > PA daemon isn't available for some reason (it crashed, or isn't
> > installed, for example), it degrades gracefully.
> >
> > I think this is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so
> > help me God, but if I'm wrong, please correct me. :-)
> >
> > Or ask. Or grant an exemption, if you find the kindness in your hearts to
> > do so.
> 
> A link to the patches would have been nice ;-)
> 
> If there are good, working and tested cmake and ifdefs, I suggest we
>  include it now, ship it in the beta and possibily in the first release
>  candidate. If we get complains or unsolvable issues we can remove it for
>  the final release if needed.
> 
> Please wait 24h for other opinions, if noone objects or raises possible
>  issues, please merge it in asap, so we can at least have some basic
>  testing before we package the beta.

Good suggestion. +1
-- 
sebas

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