PulseAudio integration issues

[Caroline Ford]

2008/8/20 Conn <subpsyke at eircom.net>:
> On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 6:39 PM, Caroline Ford
> <caroline.ford.work at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Flash and audacity? It sounds like anything people are likely to be
>> using is broken.
>>
>> I think it's actually better to ship without pulse audio than to break
>> people's sound like this. My hardy audio only started working properly
>> once I'd removed pulse. What does pulse actually give us?
>>
>> Caroline
>>
>
> It's unfortunate that Audacity does not work, yes. As for Flash, it works
> *perfectly* with PulseAudio, but only when PulseAudio itself is configured
> correctly.
>
> I agree that removing PulseAudio (rather, reverting to ESound Daemon) is
> easier, but it's not necessarily better. We made the decision to support
> PulseAudio (implicitly or otherwise) when it was integrated into Hardy - an
> LTS release!

Which was a  mistake imo. We are supposed to Just Work, especially an
LTS release!

Caroline