Re: [Ekiga-devel-list] Trunk sources

[yannick <sevmek free fr>]

Le lundi 31 mai 2010 à 16:31 +0200, Eugen Dedu a écrit :
> On 31/05/10 16:01, Peter Robinson wrote:
> > On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 2:47 PM, Eugen Dedu
> > <Eugen Dedu pu-pm univ-fcomte fr>  wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Now, that 3.2.7 has been released, we focus on trunk :o)
> >>
> >> The next release will probably be taken from ekiga master/trunk.  The
> >> question is what do we take for ptlib/opal.  Will we take:
> >> - trunk
> >> - or current stable branch, ptlib v2_8 and opal v3_8, released as stable
> >> beginning of May 2010?
> >>
> >> I think it is wiser to take the stable branch.  Otherwise said, the next
> >> ekiga unstable release will be based on ekiga master, ptlib/opal current
> >> stable branches (not trunk!)
> >>
> >> Do you agree?
> >
> > I would tend to agree that we should go with the stable branch over
> > master. What is the main differences between the two? What would be
> > the possible advantage of going master in terms of features? It would
> > be very nice to have pulse audio support but I'm not sure if that is a
> > feature of either the 2.8/3.8 releases or if its in master.
> 
> pulse is inside 2.8/3.8.
> 
> The difference is recent new-feature development (stable RC1 was 
> released in January, and as stable in May, cf. http://www.opalvoip.org/) 
> and future development.  Based on history, I think trunk ptlib/opal will 
> not be released as stable before 5-9 months.
> 

Something that would maybe make a difference:
We must get ride of the HAL dependancy for Gnome 3, i.e. we need to
release at least in september something that includes this fix...

If we don't do it, I've no clue what will happen Gnome wise... thus
integration wise from a distro point of view...

Best regards,
Yannick