[Fwd: [Fwd: PSARC 2008/043 Phase 1 of OSS for Solaris]]

[Michael Bender/MBP]

Brian Cameron wrote:

> Michael:
> 
>>> Just to be sure: OSS will be either "optional" or used only for the
>>> devices it actually support and we can continue to use SunRays until it
>>> is fixed (I'm unsure why we'd even need to use OSS for SunRays)
>>
>> There has been some talk by the GNOME folks to build GNOME to
>> only use OSS as the audio API for GNOME and GNOME apps. If this
>> were to happen, and Sun Ray did not have OSS API support (however
>> that is actually implemented), then GNOME audio would stop working
>> on Sun Ray.
> 
> Not true.  The JDS team's plan is to support SADA as long as necessary
> for our users.
> 
> Some GNOME audio applications (such as those which are GStreamer based)
> support both SADA and OSS plugins.   We may (no guarantees) likewise
> enhance Flash, RealPlayer, and/or Ekiga to support both OSS and SADA
> in a configurable fashion.  We will likely make OSS the default, but
> users/sysadmins/etc. will be able to configure to SADA if they desire.
> 
> However, we do not plan on dropping SADA support for any applications.
> We would consider dropping SADA support if all our users have migrated
> to OSS.

Thanks for the clarification, Brian. In our last meeting before
the break, I didn't feel that there was such a concrete decision
from your team. I'm glad to hear that you have clarity on this
now.

Given that is the GNOME team's plan, can you see any reason that
Sun Ray should support OSS APIs if there will be no loss in
GNOME functionality is Sun Ray continues to support only SADA?

mike