Re: [Ekiga-devel-list] Setting the goals for Ekiga 3.4

[yannick <sevmek free fr>]

Damien Sandras a écrit :
> Le dimanche 27 septembre 2009 à 12:38 +0200, yannick a écrit :
> 
>> I think it is a good idea to add TCP support; atm the lack of TCP
>> signaling for SIP broke some setups (calls fail), and as a packager I do
>> not package extra codecs (non free) because of this bug. This means
>> those non free codecs are undertested (e.g. it seems latest x264 lib do
>> not compile with Ekiga anymore), and we lose some interoperability with
>> other software/hardware out of the box.
> 
> Agreed. However, that's more an OPAL feature and it requires serious
> work on Ekiga.net to add support for TCP and NAT traversal. I'm not sure
> of the result of having 10000 active TCP connections to Ekiga.net
> either. 

hm... we are back to my secret project to take over the world... Thus I
have a fix, but it will be released in 5 years :P

> 
>> I also think we should add some automatic workarounds. e.g. for
>> freephonie.net which only works if video is disabled. Those issues hurt
>> our reputation (even if the culprit is on the registrar side for not
>> supporting well enough the standard). We have discussed that with Eugen,
>> and he has some ideas to not clutter much our code... /me launching the
>> hot patato to Eugen ;)
> 
> I hate workarounds :-) 
> Imagine we disable video for freephonie and they fix their stuff: we
> will ship broken stuff.
> 
> But that's something we need to think about. Is that possible to contact
> them and ask them why we are rejected when offering video?
> 
> 

Indeed, I need to ask them... thanks for the reminder. Still, I'm quite
sure we will need some workarounds. Plugins maybe?