Comment 260 for bug 371897

(In reply to comment #154)
> > If you've stopped trying to get Wine upstream to support pulse, this whole
> > discussion is moot. So much for the "developer willing to maintain" argument.
>
> I am, outside of wine currently.

But you're not willing to submit your patches upstream, so you're not willing to maintain it as a part of Wine (which is what the argument against "developer willing to maintain" is).

> Problem with writing a proof-of-concept for the wine project is that while it
> may be better, it will be regarded as too large a change and rejected unless it
> could be done incrementally. It's hard to make a horse and buggy into an
> automobile without being allowed to replace logical parts in their entirety.

Defeatism isn't healthy. You don't know until you try. If it is possible, it would as you say make *all* sound drivers easier to maintain, and I'm sure the core devs would consider such an improvement seriously.