Pulse Audio

[Hans L]

On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 1:47 PM, Russell Sears <sears at cs.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> Anton Persson wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I see that the Pulse Audio server and libraries are in the latest 2007.2
>> release, and I gather it's available
>> in the FSO/ASU-stuff too.. But; there are no development headers/libs in the
>> toolchain available
>> at http://downloads.openmoko.org/toolchains/.. Is there a development
>> package for this somewhere,
>
> I've heard that pulseaudio has been intentionally removed.  I don't know
> why, but I'll guess it was performace problems with no/minimal benefit.
>  I've noticed that bypassing it and talking directly to ALSA on 2007.2
> doesn't break multiple audio applications.  (You still get the ring tone
> while ogg vorbis is playing, for example...)
>
> I'd love to hear the real story on this...
>
> -Rusty
>

I thought the "real story" was already told:
http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/devel/2008-July/000253.html

What more would be required for it to become "real"?

Hans