Re: [Ekiga-devel-list] ANNOUNCE - Ekiga 3.3.0 [UNSTABLE] available

[Peter Robinson <pbrobinson gmail com>]

On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 2:21 PM, Eugen Dedu
<Eugen Dedu pu-pm univ-fcomte fr> wrote:
> On 23/12/10 15:10, Peter Robinson wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Eugen Dedu
>> <Eugen Dedu pu-pm univ-fcomte fr>  wrote:
>>>
>>> On 23/12/10 14:48, Peter Robinson wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Eugen Dedu
>>>> <Eugen Dedu pu-pm univ-fcomte fr>    wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On 23/12/10 12:38, Peter Robinson wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Eugen,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This is great news! I've built this in Fedora rawhide so it will
>>>>>> arrive for further testing there tomorrow. I'll be specifically
>>>>>> putting out an announcement to get some more testing of the pulse
>>>>>> plugin as this is something that has been sought for quite a while :-)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> A couple of other small bits.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Firstly I had to use the attached patch for it to build in F-15 due to
>>>>>> tightening of the way things are built in Fedora. Not sure if this
>>>>>> patch is the best way but its fyi
>>>>>
>>>>> A fix for this and for another thing were posted on the repository
>>>>> after
>>>>> the
>>>>> release, feel free to use them: http://git.gnome.org/browse/ekiga/
>>>>
>>>> ok, look forward to the next version.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>> Also neither the h263 nor celt plugins compiled in opal in F-15. We
>>>>>> don't currently use either of them so its not a problem. I hope to
>>>>>> enable celt before long now that its been announced the bitstream will
>>>>>> soon be stable. We don't compile either h263 or iLBC (in fact we strip
>>>>>> the source out completely) in Fedora due to the openness of them so it
>>>>>> doesn't really bother me but that is more of a heads up.
>>>>>
>>>>> What celt version do you have?  Could you make a bug report for it?
>>>>
>>>> I think its 0.8.x but I just pushed 0.10.0 to rawhide
>>>
>>> Debian has only 0.7.1, cf. http://packages.qa.debian.org/c/celt.html, and
>>> celt is known to break with each release.  Please post a bug report with
>>> the
>>> error, hoping that someone creates a patch.  Anyway, celt between two
>>> peers
>>> will work only if both have the same version, if I understand correctly.
>>
>> It depends and varies greatly from release to release depending on
>> what changes have been made to the bitstream which why up until now
>> I've had it disabled in Fedora. Come January though the celt team have
>> announced that the bit stream with be final and frozen which is when I
>> will enable it in Fedora and hence why I thought i would try it out
>> again to see the status of it in opal.
>>
>> http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/celt-dev/2010-December/000553.html
>
> Ok.  Hence it is important to make ekiga work with 0.10...

Just an update on this. 0.11.1 is out and its now soft freeze for
bitstream. So I think it would be nice if we could support that
release. Details here
http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/celt-dev/2011-February/000581.html

Peter