2015-01-26 17:10 GMT+01:00 Xavier MESSNER <xmessner@gmail.com>:
Hi,
We should discuss how to solve this. Neither "copy the squeak plugin", nor "disabe pulse-audio", is a good solution.
The two methods can be used. But I think the best is not to use the plugin. If the plugin is changing and is no longer compatible with Pharo or conversely you can no longer use this method. At the moment this is not the case.
But I don't understand why we do not use the pulse plugin with pharo. ( vm-sound-OSS is working too, and the source is already in the source tree)
While there, disable pulse-audio allows you to use Pharo with no change in its basic version. What seems to me to be less complicated in case of bugs on the sound system.
"Hey, if you want to use pharo sound on linux, you have to change your sound config and kill the sound server" No, this isn't better :)
When writing the article for Linux Magazine (a French magazine) I asked myself this question. Should I write to use the Squeak's plugin or simply stop Pulse-Audio?
I put myself in the place of a newcomer in Pharo who wants to use the sound system. Install a plugin from elsewhere to run Pharo could give the image of a not finished tool. While there, the plugin does not exist and it does not matter because the sound works with a clear and simple method. It works out of the box.
After that, in a near future we should have a plugin for Pulse-Audio or best, Linux should have only one method to access sound, but it's another story :)
Xavier.
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