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[Jason Daly]

Andres' messages about the Debian packages got me wondering about Fedora
packages, so I went and looked.  Apparently, Fedora is still using a
2006 checkout of the OpenAL-Sample implementation, which is a tragedy.  
I'm glad Debian is up to date, at least  :-)

I went ahead and updated the README files in the main svn root and the
OpenAL-Sample root to indicate that OpenAL-Sample is now considered
deprecated in favor of OpenAL-Soft.  I'm also going to try and contact
the Fedora package maintainer to let him/her know that they should
switch.  If anyone knows the standard procedure for contacting a Fedora
package maintainer, I'd be glad to know.


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[Matias D'Ambrosio]

On Wednesday 10 June 2009 20:47:19 Jason Daly wrote:

> Andres' messages about the Debian packages got me wondering about Fedora
> packages, so I went and looked.  Apparently, Fedora is still using a
> 2006 checkout of the OpenAL-Sample implementation, which is a tragedy.
> I'm glad Debian is up to date, at least  :-)
>
> I went ahead and updated the README files in the main svn root and the
> OpenAL-Sample root to indicate that OpenAL-Sample is now considered
> deprecated in favor of OpenAL-Soft.  I'm also going to try and contact
> the Fedora package maintainer to let him/her know that they should
> switch.  If anyone knows the standard procedure for contacting a Fedora
> package maintainer, I'd be glad to know.

 Well, I don't know the standard procedure, but a few days ago I visited IRC
channels for Fedora, Mandriva and Suse, they all know about OpenAL Soft and
are in transition or planning the switch (I think it was Fedora that hadn't
switched due to the then upcoming release). Gentoo made the switch already if
I'm not mistaken, and Ubuntu too, of course, since it syncs with Debian.
 That should cover the vast majority of linux users who might use OpenAL.
 Cheers,
  Matias D'Ambrosio
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[Andres Mejia]

On Wednesday 10 June 2009 19:47:19 Jason Daly wrote:

> Andres' messages about the Debian packages got me wondering about Fedora
> packages, so I went and looked.  Apparently, Fedora is still using a
> 2006 checkout of the OpenAL-Sample implementation, which is a tragedy.
> I'm glad Debian is up to date, at least  :-)
>
> I went ahead and updated the README files in the main svn root and the
> OpenAL-Sample root to indicate that OpenAL-Sample is now considered
> deprecated in favor of OpenAL-Soft.  I'm also going to try and contact
> the Fedora package maintainer to let him/her know that they should
> switch.  If anyone knows the standard procedure for contacting a Fedora
> package maintainer, I'd be glad to know.

I would start at their bug reports.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=501132
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=467541

You could also try their mailing list.
http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-games-list

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[Jason Daly]

Matias D'Ambrosio wrote:
>  Well, I don't know the standard procedure, but a few days ago I visited IRC
> channels for Fedora, Mandriva and Suse, they all know about OpenAL Soft and
> are in transition or planning the switch (I think it was Fedora that hadn't
> switched due to the then upcoming release). Gentoo made the switch already if
> I'm not mistaken, and Ubuntu too, of course, since it syncs with Debian.
>  That should cover the vast majority of linux users who might use OpenAL.
>  

That's good to know.  Thanks, Matias.

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[Ludwig Nussel]

Matias D'Ambrosio wrote:

> On Wednesday 10 June 2009 20:47:19 Jason Daly wrote:
> > Andres' messages about the Debian packages got me wondering about Fedora
> > packages, so I went and looked.  Apparently, Fedora is still using a
> > 2006 checkout of the OpenAL-Sample implementation, which is a tragedy.
> > I'm glad Debian is up to date, at least  :-)
> >
> > I went ahead and updated the README files in the main svn root and the
> > OpenAL-Sample root to indicate that OpenAL-Sample is now considered
> > deprecated in favor of OpenAL-Soft.  I'm also going to try and contact
> > the Fedora package maintainer to let him/her know that they should
> > switch.  If anyone knows the standard procedure for contacting a Fedora
> > package maintainer, I'd be glad to know.
>  Well, I don't know the standard procedure, but a few days ago I visited IRC
> channels for Fedora, Mandriva and Suse, they all know about OpenAL Soft and
> are in transition or planning the switch

openSUSE uses openal-soft since version 11.1.
Current packages (also for Fedora and Mandriva) are available in the
build service:
https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=home%3Alnussel%3Aioquake3
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/lnussel:/ioquake3/

cu
Ludwig

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