[oss-devel] Improving OSS installation

[Yair K.]

Hi,

In the forum, I've noticed that much of the problems users have with OSS, 
relate to making applications output via OSS, not making OSS work. For 
example see:

http://cinnamonpirate.com/blog/480/
http://www.rawspinach.org/2008/01/15/sound-on-fedora-fc8-solved/
http://www.4front-tech.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2461&sid=e270103d1336fe877d7eee4c7b8e3c8d

I think a few simple changes, can make for a much better experience:

1) Compile libflashsupport.so by default. If we comment out the #define 
OPENSSL line from flashsupport.c, than no new dependencies are introduced.
Maybe even use the method currently used in soundon for libsalsa to install 
it.

2) What is the ossupdate program? Is it a reliable way of updating oss? It 
seems to be still closed source.

3) Inform the user he may need to install oss sound plugins for applications 
when installation is done.

Yours,
	Yair K.