[openal] Further consideration of C++

[Daniel Gibson]

I don't think this is an option *at all*.

IMO one main point of OpenAL-soft is to provide a DLL/lib that's 
compatible with older OpenAL versions and that can be used to replace 
those in existing apps/games, so they continue to work on newer systems 
that might bring new audio interfaces (think OSS -> alsa -> pulse on 
Linux, and who knows what will replace pulse in the future).
And of course this also means that I want to be able to replace the 
OpenAL implementation of new games created now in the future.
Furthermore, as long as OpenAL-soft contains LGPL code, using it as a 
single header lib is not possible for any closed source game.

I love single-header libs, but it doesn't make sense for all libraries, 
and only up to a certain scope/size. OpenAL-soft meets none of  these 
criteria.

Cheers,
Daniel

On 30.10.2018 11:32, michael kapelko wrote:
> For example, Mongoose HTTP library (
> https://github.com/cesanta/mongoose ) ships single header and single
> source file. Actual development happens in usual small h/c files.
> On Tue, 30 Oct 2018 at 13:30, michael kapelko <kornerr at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Well, that single header could be assembed by a machine. And I was
>> actually thinking of a C++ header.
>> On Mon, 29 Oct 2018 at 16:25, Chris Robinson <chris.kcat at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 10/29/18 4:05 AM, michael kapelko wrote:
>>>> Hi.
>>>> Is it possible to simply provide openal soft as single header file? No
>>>> headaches then.
>>>
>>> It's way too big for that. It'd be an unmaintainable mess and would no
>>> longer be a shared library that can be updated independently. That would
>>> also guarantee it couldn't switch to C++, otherwise C code wouldn't be
>>> able to include it.
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