* Maik Justus -- Thursday 23 October 2008:
> Melchior sent me a note, that actual Open AL might be less buggy,
> but he still noticed strange effects.
I guess we have to define what "actual" means here. As far as I
know by now, there are three variants:
(a) "original" OpenAL by Loki (as Erik pointed out recently)
(b) "official" OpenAL by Creative (continued from (a)). Development
stalled, not very actively maintained; last commits in May?
Broken Doppler on Windows? Most people used to be using
this until not too long ago.
(c) "new" OpenAL-Soft (http://kcat.strangesoft.net/openal.html)
forked from (b)/Win32. Working Doppler (according to its author :-)
Debian & derivatives (Ubuntu) seem to have switched to this.
And no: I didn't "notice strange effects" in (c). This was
referring to our current configuration with our workaround
for Windows and probably using (b). *This* doesn't work
correctly, according to Vivian.
The problem is, that we can probably not distinguish between
them. Should/can we remove all workarounds and require (c)?
Assuming that it actually works, of course. Advantage:
it's actively maintained. The main developer answered only
hours after I had reported a possible bug, and he even checked
out and commented on the SimGear code, although I had only
mentioned FlightGear. Almost scary. ;-)
m.
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