Eric Pouech wrote: > the point is not whether 0.5 is technically better than 0.9 (or the > other > way around). The point is on the current installed base of ALSA drivers > in the field, how many are 0.5 and how many are 0.9. > Mandrake and Suse (at least) have been shipping 0.5 for more than one > year, whereas 0.9 is brand new.
Perhaps not quite brand new, at least in "computer years" ;) In any case, I think that it is not unreasonable to expect someone wanting to run wine with sound to install 0.9. Relative newbies might get a bit of a shock at having to recompile their kernels to get ALSA. But I think many users, well at least me, would be rather disappointed at being expected to run 0.5 (assuming that would be required). ...just my opinion though.
