The reason for using OpenAL is for platforms that dont have
alsa/oss/esd/... support
For one it gives a chance to test audio on windows for example -- and
on mac osx (although the winecoreaudio driver is making great progress).
planning to use OpenAL for portability reasons is a bad idea IMO:
- it won't support the mapping required by dsound (unless we decide to
drop the HW support)
- OpenAL is overkill (in terms of API) for portability (PortAudio would
be better IMO)
- OpenAL doesn't support recording AFAICT
A+
