Ah - thank you for the symbol list! From the decorations (and names) it looks these symbols are all OpenAL extensions...except for alBufferAppendData, which appears to have been (incorrectly?!?) exported as a non-decorated symbol too. One document from 2001 referes to the "well-documented" alBufferAppendData, but it's not in the 1.1 spec, not even as a dropped symbol.
Anyway, I can't deny that, to the extent that there might be an (undocumented and now deprecated?) core function in OpenAL, that that would warrant a .so version name change. I don't think the other symbols with decoration should warrant a soname change; like OpenGL, OpenAL extension discovery should be done at runtime to cope with renderers that don't provide all extensions; changing the major version because a particular extension was dropped would punish apps that correctly check extensions at runtime. cheers Ben -- Scenery Home Page: http://scenery.x-plane.com/ Scenery blog: http://xplanescenery.blogspot.com/ Plugin SDK: http://www.xsquawkbox.net/xpsdk/ X-Plane Wiki: http://wiki.x-plane.com/ Scenery mailing list: [email protected] Developer mailing list: [email protected] -- /usr/lib/libopenal.so.0 missing from Intrepid https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/273558 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
