[SFLphone-dev] SFLPhone in Debian GNU/Linux

[Yan Morin]

Thanks for the offer but since I've don't have debian yet (I will have 
it in one month, it's a promise), I can't right now. But I will be more 
interested later.

Mark Purcell wrote:
> On Wednesday 12 April 2006 20:36, Yan Morin wrote:
>   
>> Maybe that if libraries are more available in debian, developers will
>> cease their bad habit to include library in their package.
>> I've made a graph (dot graph) last day to check for missing library:
>> http://yansanmo.no-ip.org/project/sflphone/ipt.png
>>     
>
> We are working on it..
>
> pkg-voip-maintainers is happy to sponsor packages & libraries towards that 
> goal..
>
> If you are keen, please feel free to join us in pkg-voip-maintainers, you just 
> need to setup an account on http://alioth.debian.org and we can provide you 
> commit access..
>
> Have a look at our README for how we do business:
> http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-voip/README?op=file&rev=0&sc=0
>
>   
>> red = not in debian, white = inside softphone packages
>>
>> You could see that iax2, gsm, ilbc and lpc10 are included inside a lot
>> of packages.
>>     
>
> A couple of comments:
>
> RED = not in debian
> portaudio_v19 hasn't been released upstream and the API keeps on changing...  
> That said we are doing some work and should release v19 into debian shortly:
> http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-voip/portaudio19/
>   
That is very good since audacity and other projets 
(http://portaudio.com/apps.html) will be improved in the same time.

> taxidermy:  Can you provide a URL. Couldn't find a RFP. utilspp. No RFP. Is that part of http://rrette.com/curlpp.html?
Hum, sorry for theses, taxidermy and utilspp, are libs from one of the 
sflphone developer. I don't know if he want to release them as distinct 
library.
> pacpp: No RFP.  Looks interesting..  URL 
>   
http://portaudio.com/archives/pacpp.zip
http://portaudio.com/archives/pacpp_api_reference.zip

Seen on http://portaudio.com/download.html
> libeXosip2: Uploaded to NEW.
>   
Yeah!
> libiax2: is packaged as libiaxclient-dev although there is some discussion 
> about a couple of forks.
>   
I get the libiax2 code from "svn checkout 
http://svn.digium.com/svn/libiax2/trunk libiax2"
So this is also on digium SVN.

> ortp: No RFP.  Looks interesting, used in linphone, but useful for others. 
> http://linphone.org/ortp/
>   
In the earlier release of SFLphone, we tried ortp, but it was too buggy. 
It's why we use libcommoncpp2 and ccrtp right now. ortp seems to be a 
stable today.
> lpc10. No RFP.  Is there an upstream URL for just the library, or is it just 
> embeded into things like openh323/ opal, et al?
>
> dissipate2.  Is this only used in kphone? and maybe kcall, which just uses 
> kphone??
>
> libgsm. Is packaged in debian as libgsm1-dev
>
> opal. Is being packaged by p-v-m as the replacement to openh323
> http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-voip/opal/
>
> ilbc. We have had lots of discussion on this. Check the pkg-voip-maintainers 
> archive.  Basically it is non-free and we need to stop shipping it in kphone, 
> asterisk, openh323 and opal.  iaxclient is already built without it..  
> Perhaps we could package as a separate library in non-free...
>   
SFLphone won't use ilbc since it is non-free, it was just to do the 
graphics .
> Mark


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Yan Morin
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