Re: [Super-tux-devel] --disable-sound and NOSOUND

[Tobias <tob...@gm...>]

Am Do, den 18.12.2003 schrieb Bill Kendrick um 09:34:
> On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 03:29:04PM -0500, Tobias Gläßer wrote:
> > We have following options.
> > -Switching from SDL_mixer to sth. that has less dependencies
> 
> I'm not familiar with 'sth'.

sth. = something :)

>  I'm really opposed to switching from SDL_mixer,
> though, since it's why I fell in love with SDL in the first place.
> It's also VERY popular, well-known, and comes with pretty much all distros.

The sound effects in supertux don't sound like they should. When I play
them with something like xmms they sound different, so I conclude, that
SDL_mixer is at least bad in playing .wav files.

You are right. There are SDL_mixer packages for nearly every major
distro.

> > -Creating fake functions, which do nothing, if someone don't wants to
> > link against SDL_mixer. (Just a idea, I dunno if that is 100% possible
> > ;) )
> 
> Defined with #define?  ;)  Heheheheheh

There would be only one remaining #ifndef, which would lead to much
cleaner code.

> 
> <snip>
> > And in my point of view a runtime option is much better here, since the
> > most people will install a RPM or something like that.
> 
> Assumign we find someone who will build RPMs for us at each release ;)
> But yeah.  I am kind of thinking as though it were still 1998-1999 :)
> 
> 
> <snip> 
> > Greetz... (I'm going to view 'Lord of the Rings' today!)
> 
> Cool!  I hear they throw the ring into the lava.  Heheheh ;)
> (It's hard to spoil a movie based on such an old book ;)

Heh. Yepp, they actually melt the ring. :)

Greetz...

Tobias Gläßer