Hi,
I'd like to package osgaudio, which is an OpenSceneGraph-like frontend to OpenAL. It is currently maintained by OpenSceneGraph's main author at: https://github.com/robertosfield/osgaudio/
It requires and contains openalpp, a C++ frontend for OpenAL. We haven't shipped openalpp since Fedora 7. The original project for openalpp hasn't been updated since 2005 or so. I've searched for a better fork of openalpp and haven't found any.
My proposal is to install openalpp alongside osgaudio, in separate subpackages with appropriate Requires. That way, we provide a choice between a C++ interface to OpenAL or a SceneGraph approach to 3D sound. I believe this approach is not in violation of: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bundled_Software_policy as osgaudio and openalpp would live in separate packages (built from the same srpm), in effect both becoming system libraries.
Any comment very much welcome.
François
Hi, François. Sorry for late reply.
On Wednesday, 23 March 2016 at 00:43, François Cami wrote:
Hi,
I'd like to package osgaudio, which is an OpenSceneGraph-like frontend to OpenAL. It is currently maintained by OpenSceneGraph's main author at: https://github.com/robertosfield/osgaudio/
It requires and contains openalpp, a C++ frontend for OpenAL. We haven't shipped openalpp since Fedora 7. The original project for openalpp hasn't been updated since 2005 or so. I've searched for a better fork of openalpp and haven't found any.
My proposal is to install openalpp alongside osgaudio, in separate subpackages with appropriate Requires. That way, we provide a choice between a C++ interface to OpenAL or a SceneGraph approach to 3D sound. I believe this approach is not in violation of: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bundled_Software_policy as osgaudio and openalpp would live in separate packages (built from the same srpm), in effect both becoming system libraries.
Your proposal is correct. However, if there are other consumers of the openalpp code, it might be worth asking osgaudio upstream to distribute openalpp separately and support linking against the external library. Do you know of any other projects that depend on openalpp?
Regards, Dominik
Hi Dominik,
On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 11:52 PM, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski dominik@greysector.net wrote:
Hi, François. Sorry for late reply.
On Wednesday, 23 March 2016 at 00:43, François Cami wrote:
Hi,
I'd like to package osgaudio, which is an OpenSceneGraph-like frontend to OpenAL. It is currently maintained by OpenSceneGraph's main author at: https://github.com/robertosfield/osgaudio/
It requires and contains openalpp, a C++ frontend for OpenAL. We haven't shipped openalpp since Fedora 7. The original project for openalpp hasn't been updated since 2005 or so. I've searched for a better fork of openalpp and haven't found any.
My proposal is to install openalpp alongside osgaudio, in separate subpackages with appropriate Requires. That way, we provide a choice between a C++ interface to OpenAL or a SceneGraph approach to 3D sound. I believe this approach is not in violation of: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bundled_Software_policy as osgaudio and openalpp would live in separate packages (built from the same srpm), in effect both becoming system libraries.
Your proposal is correct.
Thank you.
However, if there are other consumers of the openalpp code, it might be worth asking osgaudio upstream to distribute openalpp separately and support linking against the external library.
That was plan B. I'll be doing it, as upstream is rather busy.
Do you know of any other projects that depend on openalpp?
I don't know of any out of my head.
François
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