REALBasic and OpenAL

[D. Hageman]

I know a couple of weeks ago I posted a message recommended a person not 
learn REALBasic for their first language.  I still believe in this very 
much, but we do apparently have a couple of people on this list that work 
with REALBasic.  In my spare time I spend time helping multiple open 
source projects - one of them being OpenAL.  I don't know if many of you 
are aware of this project, but more information can be found here:

http://www.openal.org

A person is currently trying to "port" openal to REALBasic.  I am assuming 
this means a wrapper around the API.  At any rate he is running into some 
trouble.  I don't know enough to help him, nor do I have time to dig deep 
into this issue.  If you are interested in helping out with this you 
should look at his webpage:

http://www.maui.net/~mauitom/openal.html

and his post:

http://opensource.creative.com/pipermail/openal-devel/2005-March/thread.html

which can be found there once the archives catch up.  The linux 
implementation is not without flaws, unfortunately I found that it is 
difficult to get patches into the sample implementation.  This should not 
dissuade us from providing help.

If you know REALBasic, have a moment and would like a project ... think 
about helping out.  I don't ask because it is going to help me, but 
because I think it is just a good thing (tm).

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