Re: pkgsrc-wip/sndio adopting request

[nia <nia%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Fri, Aug 16, 2024 at 02:23:44PM +0200, Robert Bagdan wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 16, 2024 at 11:51 AM nia <nia%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
> >
> > I don't have any problem with sndio being imported into
> > the main pkgsrc branch (assuming the package is high
> > quality), but I am cautious of it being used as a default.
> >
> > Just like I hope that no new packages are being imported
> > using alsa/pulseaudio on NetBSD due to lack of other options,
> > I would hope that no new packages are being imported
> > that use sndio by default on NetBSD.
> 
> Well, I'm just playing with sndio as an audio backend to chromium. Now
> pkgsrc-wip/chromium uses pulseaudio, but I would like to check how it
> works with sndio. However I understand your position on the topic.
> Sadly chromium supports only alsa and pulseaudio, which is available
> on NetBSD as well. @rnagy from OpenBSD made another option, this is
> the sndio backend (upstream not merged). I checked his sndio code
> (chromium/media/audio/sndio/*) and I think it isn't hopeless to make
> native NetBSD audio backend to chromium, but not for me... I'm lacking
> qualities for this :(
> 
> > I'd rather get an email asking if I can write some code.
> 
> If you have some time and motivation to work on this, that would be wonderful.
> 
> Regards,
> kikadf

It depends on how things work out -- I have surgery next month.

The part that worries me about the Chromium packaging (and indeed the
existing webengine package) is a question of quality - simply taking
the OpenBSD port and s/OpenBSD/NetBSD/g doesn't inspire confidence
in the port of the browser being well done.