Author: ceros-guest Date: 2008-04-23 05:49:43 +0000 (Wed, 23 Apr 2008) New Revision: 6720
Added: packages/trunk/openal-soft/debian/README.Debian packages/trunk/openal-soft/debian/TODO.Debian Removed: packages/trunk/openal-soft/debian/TODO Modified: packages/trunk/openal-soft/debian/changelog Log: * Added new todo. Also renamed TODO to TODO.Debian. * Added README.Debian. Updated timestamp Added: packages/trunk/openal-soft/debian/README.Debian =================================================================== --- packages/trunk/openal-soft/debian/README.Debian (rev 0) +++ packages/trunk/openal-soft/debian/README.Debian 2008-04-23 05:49:43 UTC (rev 6720) @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@ +Notes about openal-soft +======================= +From the upstream website: + + About This Project + + This library is meant as a compatible update/replacement to the OpenAL + Sample Implementation (the SI). The SI has been unmaintained for quite a + while, and would require a lot of work to clean up. After attempting to work + on the SI for a bit, I became overwhelmed with the amount of work needed, + and I eventually decided to fork the old Windows version to attempt an + accelerated ALSA version. The accelerated ALSA idea quickly fell through, + but I ended up porting the software mixing code to be cross-platform, with + multiple output backends: ALSA, OSS, DirectSound, and a .wav writer are + currently implemented. + + OpenAL Soft supports mono, stereo, 4-channel, 5.1, 6.1, and 7.1 output, as + opposed to the SI's 4-channel max (though it did have some provisions for 6 + channel, this was not 5.1, and was seemingly a "late" addition). OpenAL Soft + does not support the Vorbis and MP3 extensions, however those were + considered deprecated even in the SI. It does, though, support some of the + newer extensions like AL_EXT_FLOAT32 and AL_EXT_MCFORMATS for multi-channel + and floating-point formats, as well as ALC_EXT_EFX for environmental audio + effects, and others. + +It should be noted that the last changes committed in the SI repository in the +openal website from Creative were done by Chris Robinson (the upstream +maintainer of openal-soft). Take a look at +http://www.openal.org/repos/openal/trunk/OpenAL-Sample/ChangeLog. + +So in this case, it looks like openal-soft is the way forward in regards to +using the OpenAL API. + +The upstream source is hosted in a git repository. +Upstream-Vcs-Browser: http://repo.or.cz/w/openal-soft.git +Upstream-Vcs-Git: git://repo.or.cz/openal-soft.git Deleted: packages/trunk/openal-soft/debian/TODO =================================================================== --- packages/trunk/openal-soft/debian/TODO 2008-04-23 05:29:21 UTC (rev 6719) +++ packages/trunk/openal-soft/debian/TODO 2008-04-23 05:49:43 UTC (rev 6720) @@ -1,2 +0,0 @@ -* Get with all maintainers of reverse dependencies of openal and start testing - this new version of openal. Copied: packages/trunk/openal-soft/debian/TODO.Debian (from rev 6719, packages/trunk/openal-soft/debian/TODO) =================================================================== --- packages/trunk/openal-soft/debian/TODO.Debian (rev 0) +++ packages/trunk/openal-soft/debian/TODO.Debian 2008-04-23 05:49:43 UTC (rev 6720) @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +* Get with all maintainers of reverse dependencies of openal and start testing + this new version of openal. Modified: packages/trunk/openal-soft/debian/changelog =================================================================== --- packages/trunk/openal-soft/debian/changelog 2008-04-23 05:29:21 UTC (rev 6719) +++ packages/trunk/openal-soft/debian/changelog 2008-04-23 05:49:43 UTC (rev 6720) @@ -11,5 +11,7 @@ * Support building of static libraries. * Added myself in Uploaders field. * Set libopenal-dev to depend on binary version. + * Added new todo. Also renamed TODO to TODO.Debian. + * Added README.Debian. - -- Bruno "Fuddl" Kleinert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:05:18 +0100 + -- Andres Mejia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 01:47:40 -0400 _______________________________________________ Pkg-games-commits mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-games-commits
