Re: [Ekiga-devel-list] port ekiga to osx

[thomas schorpp <thomas schorpp googlemail com>]

Fine. But as I said, You get more efficient help here If You write some analysis+design spec together, Trainee.
The effort (under)estimation has Your mentor already done for You ;)
Don't hesitate to ask for more.

y
tom

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Betreff: RE: [Ekiga-devel-list] port ekiga to osx
Datum: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:16:53 +0100
Von: Hannes De Backer <hannesdb hotmail com>
An: <thomas schorpp gmail com>

I'm sorry "They" is my mentor at aserver: http://confluence.aserver.com/display/www/Home?co=
We won't take disadvantage of the software, if that is you think. If the port succeeds, i will share, 
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> Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:08:03 +0100
> From: thomas schorpp googlemail com
> To: ekiga-devel-list gnome org
> Subject: Re: [Ekiga-devel-list] port ekiga to osx
>
> Peter Robinson schrieb:
> > Hi,
> > 
> >> I am a trainee. They want me to port ekiga to osx. I have about 2 months to
> >> do this.
> >> Could u people point me at the right direction? 
>
> Insufficent project specification for support, sorry.
>
> > 
> > I don't know anything about MacOSX but there is a port of gtk [1] to
> > OSX already, I believe PTLIB and OPAL is (or at least use to be)
> > supported on OSX but there were issues with at least video support
> > from memory but as the latest release of ekiga has at least beta
> > support for audio/video input/output via gstreamer and thanks to
> > songbird and a couple of other projects gstreamer is fully supported
> > on OSX it should be possible.
>
> Speculation, he said "port", not cross-build, since "They" have him hiding behind M$ hotmail 
> their management behaviour implies to me they want to convert Ekiga to OSX GUI+A/V-APIs 
> and so I doubt "They" will contribute to us with any patches nor with a compatible 
> license, will "They"?
>
> > 
> > Peter
> > 
> > [1] http://www.gtk-osx.org/
>
> y
> tom