Removal of pipe sink and source modules from Fedora pulse packages - devel - Fedora mailing-lists

1 May 2013


      Hi Lennart,
In this thread:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/2009-June/004215.ht...
You express that the module-pipe-sink is a toy, and can't be used for
anything useful, and that you're going to remove it from the Fedora
packages.
And, indeed, it has been removed from the Fedora packages; the .spec
file removes the pipe sink and source (along with oss and the old detect
module).
I couldn't find any other discussion of this removal; please forgive me
and supply links if I did not Google well or long enough to find it.
However, I would like to play with your toy <grin>.  Specifically, the
module-pipe-sink proved to be a useful tool in feeding sound into an
Xspice virtual session.  Each session gets a virtual X display, and we
now have code in spice to consume the fifo and translate it into spice
sound protocol messages.
I was preparing an Xspice demo as part of the Fedora 19 test process,
and sound is one of the key benefits of spice.
I am hoping to persuade you to undo those removals, or failing that, to
persuade you to create a new package (named pulseaudio-toys, perhaps
<grin>).
Cheers,
Jeremy