icedtea-sound and java9

[Andrew Hughes]

On 7 November 2017 at 22:00, Omair Majid <omajid at redhat.com> wrote:
> * Fridrich Strba <fridrich.strba at suse.com> [2017-11-07 10:42]:

snip...

>
>> Concerning the pulseaudio.properties, it looks like it might have used
>> some icedtea modification/patch. But I didn't find any place it would be
>> parsed in jdk9 or in icedtea-3.6.0. Maybe just my eyes, maybe it is not
>> used.
>
> That sounds right to me too. I don't recall ever implementing a
> pulseaudio.properties. Maybe it came out from the splitting of icedtea6
> (sound.properties) and icedtea-sound?
>
> Thanks,
> Omair
>
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IcedTea 3.x never carried the pulseaudio provider and I don't know how this
area has changed in OpenJDK 9.

It's still a part of the last IcedTea 1.x release, 1.13.13. A cursory
look suggests
I was right and it was originally a sound.properties patch which
became disembodied
when we moved to IcedTea-Sound.

$ cat ../icedtea6/patches/pulse-soundproperties.patch
--- openjdk/jdk/src/share/lib/sound.properties    2008-08-28
04:15:18.000000000 -0400
+++ openjdk/jdk/src/share/lib/sound.properties    2008-10-03
16:59:21.000000000 -0400
@@ -37,3 +37,13 @@
 # Specify the default Receiver by provider and name:
 # javax.sound.midi.Receiver=com.sun.media.sound.MidiProvider#SunMIDI1
 #
+
+# javax.sound.sampled.Clip=org.classpath.icedtea.pulseaudio.PulseAudioMixerProvider
+# javax.sound.sampled.Port=org.classpath.icedtea.pulseaudio.PulseAudioMixerProvider
+# javax.sound.sampled.SourceDataLine=org.classpath.icedtea.pulseaudio.PulseAudioMixerProvider
+# javax.sound.sampled.TargetDataLine=org.classpath.icedtea.pulseaudio.PulseAudioMixerProvider
+
+javax.sound.sampled.Clip=com.sun.media.sound.DirectAudioDeviceProvider
+javax.sound.sampled.Port=com.sun.media.sound.PortMixerProvider
+javax.sound.sampled.SourceDataLine=com.sun.media.sound.DirectAudioDeviceProvider
+javax.sound.sampled.TargetDataLine=com.sun.media.sound.DirectAudioDeviceProvider

IcedTea-Sound really needs an install phase to handle stuff like that.
As I say, I'll look into that
when I'm not in the middle of a security update :-)
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