Comment 386 for bug 371897

(In reply to comment #279)
> do. So, hear me: there are *no* unresolved technical reasons for not being a
> winepulse driver in Wine. It's all politics.

Thanks for the rational post.

I decided to email Scott Ritchie yesterday to see if he knew anything about the status of the OpenAL-based replacement back-end, as I haven't seen any information on it for almost a year. Here's his response in case anyone is interested:

"It's kind of hard to say actually. Maarten is the one doing the work,
but he couldn't come to wineconf at the last minute. Julliard has some
doubts about OpenAL mainly because some of the tests are still failing
after the partial implementation, but I'm not sure if that's a permanent
thing."

I think I may also have found a repo where Maarten is checking in changes for the OpenAL/mmdevapi work: http://repo.or.cz/w/wine/multimedia.git/shortlog/refs/heads/mmdevapi