From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from us-smtp-1.mimecast.com (us-smtp-delivery-1.mimecast.com [205.139.110.120]) by sourceware.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8FAA385BF83 for ; Sun, 12 Apr 2020 22:53:35 +0000 (GMT) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 sourceware.org B8FAA385BF83 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=cygwin.com Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; spf=fail smtp.mailfrom=yselkowitz@cygwin.com Received: from mimecast-mx01.redhat.com (mimecast-mx01.redhat.com [209.132.183.4]) (Using TLS) by relay.mimecast.com with ESMTP id us-mta-422-rC3lvbG_Ooafv0_2rByq8Q-1; Sun, 12 Apr 2020 18:53:33 -0400 X-MC-Unique: rC3lvbG_Ooafv0_2rByq8Q-1 Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx07.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.22]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mimecast-mx01.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 786CB13F7 for ; Sun, 12 Apr 2020 22:53:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ovpn-112-61.rdu2.redhat.com (ovpn-112-61.rdu2.redhat.com [10.10.112.61]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1486710016EB for ; Sun, 12 Apr 2020 22:53:31 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <10495157615235b70526ea7694ce9f49e342126b.camel@cygwin.com> Subject: Re: Remove nas/libaudio from libao From: Yaakov Selkowitz To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2020 18:53:30 -0400 In-Reply-To: References: User-Agent: Evolution 3.34.4 (3.34.4-1.fc31) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.84 on 10.5.11.22 X-Mimecast-Spam-Score: 0 X-Mimecast-Originator: cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Spam-Status: No, score=-8.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, JMQ_SPF_NEUTRAL, KAM_DMARC_STATUS, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE, SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_NEUTRAL, TXREP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on server2.sourceware.org X-BeenThere: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Cygwin package maintainer discussion list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2020 22:53:37 -0000 On Mon, 2020-04-06 at 15:33 -0400, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: > I'm currently attempting to deprecate a number of older software stacks > in order to narrow down the maintenance burden of Cygwin. As part of > dropping Qt/KDE 3 and 4, nas/libaudio could also be dropped, except > that libao still has a NAS backend enabled. >=20 > Given that, could you please rebuild libao w/o the NAS backend? At the > same time, perhaps the ESD backend should be replaced by the Pulse > backend, since libesd is just a compat client for PulseAudio at this > point? There are also a few patches which you'll want to include if > you haven't already: >=20 > https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/libao/tree/master David, Thanks for updating libao. Since it wasn't enabled in 1.1.0-3, I neglected to mention that aRts is also being dropped as part of KDE 3.=20 Could I bother you to rebuild libao one more time without the aRts backend, leaving only OSS and Pulse enabled? Thanks again, and sorry for the confusion. -- Yaakov