IcedTea-Sound 1.0.0 Released!

[Andrew Hughes]

----- Original Message -----
> On 18 July 2014 23:21, Andrew Hughes <gnu.andrew at redhat.com> wrote:
> > We are pleased to announce the inaugural release of IcedTea-Sound.  At
> > present, IcedTea-Sound contains the PulseAudio provider which was
> > removed from IcedTea itself from 2.5.0 onwards. More providers may be
> > included in the future.
> >
> > If you find an issue with the release, please report it to our bug
> > database (http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla) under the
> > IcedTea-Sound product and the appropriate component. Development
> > discussion takes place on the distro-pkg-dev at openjdk.java.net mailing
> > list (as with IcedTea) and patches are always welcome.
> >
> > Full details of the release can be found below.
> >
> > What's New?
> > ===========
> > New in release 1.0.0 (2014-07-18):
> >
> > * PR1741: Break PulseAudio provider out into IcedTea-Sound
> > * PR1840: Replace Makefile.am references to PULSE_JAVA with ICEDTEA_SOUND
> > * PR1842: Linker does not check that symbols can be resolved for
> > libpulse-java.so
> > * PR1876: The following shared libraries lack a SONAME:
> > /usr/lib64/libicedtea-sound.so
> >
> > The tarballs can be downloaded from:
> >
> > * http://icedtea.classpath.org/download/source/icedtea-sound-1.0.0.tar.gz
> > * http://icedtea.classpath.org/download/source/icedtea-sound-1.0.0.tar.xz
> >
> > We provide both gzip and xz tarballs, so that those who are able to
> > make use of the smaller tarball produced by xz may do so.
> >
> > The tarballs are accompanied by digital signatures available at:
> >
> > *
> > http://icedtea.classpath.org/download/source/icedtea-sound-1.0.0.tar.gz.sig
> > *
> > http://icedtea.classpath.org/download/source/icedtea-sound-1.0.0.tar.xz.sig
> >
> > These are produced using my public key. See details below.
> >
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> >
> > SHA256 checksums:
> >
> > 0d09bc9656f9125642f70bb322f8ec92ec0ae28fdd295e83c4ce3c7576e79bd3
> > icedtea-sound-1.0.0.tar.gz
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> > icedtea-sound-1.0.0.tar.xz
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> >
> > The checksums can be downloaded from:
> >
> > * http://icedtea.classpath.org/download/source/icedtea-sound-1.0.0.sha256
> >
> > The following people helped with this release:
> >
> > * Andrew Hughes (all bug fixes, release management)
> >
> > We would also like to thank the bug reporters and testers!
> >
> > To get started:
> >
> > $ tar xzf icedtea-sound-1.0.0.tar.gz
> >
> > or:
> >
> > $ tar x -I xz -f icedtea-sound-1.0.0.tar.xz
> >
> > then:
> >
> > $ mkdir its-build
> > $ cd its-build
> > $ ../icedtea-sound-1.0.0/configure --prefix=${install_location}
> > $ make
> > $ make install
> >
> > where ${install_location} should be replaced by the prefix where you
> > wish to install IcedTea-Sound (default is /usr/local). Depending on
> > the prefix selected, the 'make install' step may need root privileges.
> >
> > Full build requirements and instructions are available in the INSTALL file.
> >
> > Happy hacking!
> > --
> > Andrew :)
> >
> > Free Java Software Engineer
> > Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com)
> >
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> 
> Hello Andrew,
> 
> I can't quite get the relation between icedtea-sound and an OpenJDK
> built with Icedtea. It seems I don't need icedtea-sound for my Java
> app to play sound: I tried tuxguitar [0] and this Oracle test app [1]
> that are able to play sound even though I have an OpenJDK + Icedtea
> 2.5.1 but **no** icedtea-sound installed.
> 
> Complete version:
> 
> java version "1.7.0_65"
> OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea 2.5.1) (Arch Linux build
> 7.u65_2.5.1-5-x86_64)
> OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 24.65-b04, mixed mode)
> 
> Could you please let me know what I am missing here?
> 
> [0] http://sourceforge.net/projects/tuxguitar/
> [1] http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/index-139508.html
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Guillaume
> 

No, you don't. IcedTea-Sound provides additional plugins (well, plugin
at the moment, but more to come in future). It's what was --enable-pulse-java
in IcedTea for many years, but we've split it out so there aren't multiple
copies being maintained over multiple versions of IcedTea.

The PulseAudio provider in IcedTea-Sound uses PulseAudio to play
sound rather than ALSA, which is what the OpenJDK plugin does. I think,
even back when it was in IcedTea, it would be disabled by default, unless
explicitly enabled.

Hope that helps,
-- 
Andrew :)

Free Java Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com)

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