Comment 510 for bug 371897

(In reply to comment #392)
> So, it's been a month since the last update about this... How are things going?
> Will winepulse make it into upstream? Has there been an actual collaboration
> between Maarten and the devs?

Patches have been sent, people posted reviews/comments. E.g.,:
http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2012-October/097482.html
http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2012-October/097485.html
http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2012-October/097486.html
http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2012-October/097487.html
http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2012-October/097602.html
etc. (check http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2012-October/ and look for dsound).

One of the patches was resent yesterday:
http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-patches/2012-November/119914.html

> Also, just for the record:
> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTIxOTg
> By the way, I think this should be changed to major, since the lack of sound in
> most (if not all) applications should be probably considered a "major loss of
> functionality for a wide range of applications"

Check the first comment, it's a feature request => enhancement.

Pulseaudio is supposed to be compatible with ALSA, which Wine already supports, and sound does work for a lot of use cases.*

*Note: This is not meant to restart the debate about Pulseaudio/Wine/etc. I'm explaining why, as a bugzilla admin, I'm not marking it major.