Status of spandsp

[Kilian Krause]

Simon,

Am Dienstag, den 01.08.2006, 16:54 +0200 schrieb Simon Richter:
> Let me apologize for the harsh words beforehand.
> 
> When I agreed to hand over the spandsp package to pkg-voip, the idea I
> had in mind was "great, someone else volunteers to maintain it, so I
> don't have to.", which sounds like a fair enough deal, provided that the
> package actually works.

Sorry, and apology accepted. I know that I have a whole lot less time
than I wish to spend on pkg-voip stuff, yet I'm working on this. Stuff
like trying to get mobile internet, so that I'll no longer be stuck to
reading email late hours when I'm plain not in the mood of poking stuff
around after a hard day. Yet, as far as my records go, you're part of
pkg-voip and thus still able to work on spandsp yourself within the
current infrastructure. This, as far as my memory tells me, was even the
plan, that we help one another and whoever grabs the new updates first,
may ship them in the name of pkg-voip. Thus, feel free to "take back"
the responsibility, but please within pkg-voip.

> Since then, the packaging has gotten a great deal more complicated, and
> there have been interesting breakages that no one bothered to clean up.
> I cannot help myself but think that it was assumed all the time that I
> would continue to maintain the package, only using the pkg-voip
> infrastructure which I consider pretty clumsy and overblown for
> something that is in essence a library package that is pretty stable.
> 
> As I require this package for my work, I would like to take it back;
> given the track record so far, I'm not sure it would be a good idea to
> continue maintaining it as a "plug-in" for the various programs that use
> it, but rather as a shared library in its own right, so I'm not
> confident that keeping it in the same repository as the programs using
> it and uploading it alongside with them is going to do the package any good.

I don't see how it's a "plug-in", it's a shared library that drops into
place for every program that was compiled against it. The fact that it's
shipped with the other VoIP stuff, doesn't make it dependant on anything
more than it is already by its library-typic nature.

-- 
Best regards,
 Kilian
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