Comment 19 for bug 273558

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

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