Re: [Ekiga-list] [Ekiga-devel-list] Best Wishes for 2014

[Chris Vine <chris cvine freeserve co uk>]

On Thu, 02 Jan 2014 10:05:28 +0100
Damien Sandras <dsandras seconix com> wrote:
> Le 01/01/14 16:44, Matthias Apitz a écrit :
> > I do not know exactly, what is planned as basis for Ekiga 5.0. But,
> > if it will depend on Gnome 3.x features or layers, this would
> > knock-out completely FreeBSD, due to the fact that Gnome 3 is not
> > portable (IMHO a bad design) to FreeBSD. matthias 
>
> Ah :-/
>
> Currently, it is using GTK+3 (with Glib) as well as some parts of 
> GStreamer 1.0 and Clutter-GTK.
>
> Are those parts usable on FreeBSD ?

I don't use FreeBSD but subject to anything Matthias has to say, you
should be OK with those: there seem to be FreeBSD ports available for
all of them.  To avoid confusion it would be wise not to say that
ekiga-5.0 requires gnome-3, because if those are the dependencies then
it doesn't.  You would do better describing it as a GTK+-3 application.

gnome-3 is already semi-incompatible with some linux distributions (you
have to work hard to get to run with slackware for example, although I
do have gnome-3.10 running on slackware-14.1), and it will become
incompatible with more of them as it moves to a hard dependency on
systemd.  The only distributions you can be sure will support the full
gnome stack into the future are fedora and arch.

Chris