OpenH323 status on Debian and packaging OpenH323+

[Diana Cionoiu]

Hello,

Unstable means a lot of things, like for example unstable API.
I don't feel that if they come up with a new version at every 2 months i 
should spend huge amount of time to figure out what is modified. Like 
I've mention in my previous e-mail there are different requirements for 
enterprise systems, and I've also mention our project position.
Also from the irc you can see this:
"<kilian> it's what our openh323 package needs to evolve into "
This phase mention very clear, "needs to evolve into" which means is not 
yet stable.

Diana

Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 04:45:32PM +0300, Diana Cionoiu wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> The story is easy.
>> The OpenH323 team decided to quit OpenH323 in favor of Opal. Since some 
>> people still want to use OpenH323 there is a team which started h323plus.
>> Now our software which is Yate doesn't work with nither Opal or h323plus 
>> because both are unstable or in the best case have serious performance 
>> issues.
>>     
>
> h323plus is in unstable?
>
> Just to fill in, from the IRC channel:
>
> <manty> hi!
> <manty> I was having a look at current openh323 and found that we don't
>         have the latest versions
> <manty> Is this because of a lack of time?
> <manty> or maybe the 1.20 versions are still somewhat unstable?
> <manty> what is the status of openh323 we have on Debian?
> <manty> I see we have at least two versions
> <manty> and none of these is the one available at
>         http://www.h323plus.org/ is this yet another fork?
>
> <kilian> h323plus is the successor of openh323
> <kilian> and thus the only actively "developed" fork
> <kilian> it's what our openh323 package needs to evolve into
> <kilian> the codebase is plain the last openh323 unstable imported and fixed
>
> <manty> kilian: so... is anybody working on it?
> <manty> kilian: or should I start working on it?
>
> <kilian> manty: if you feel like picking back up pwlib/ptlib and
>          openh323/h323plus that'd be great
> <kilian> manty: there is some stuff to discuss so please read yourself
>          into what the last update was that i made and we go from there
>
>   
>> I have no idea how in the future things should go, but there is an 
>> additional issue. The basic library is PWLib, which is not compatibile 
>> for both OpenH323 and Opal.
>> The thing that will make my life easier in enterprise installations will 
>> be to have 2 PWLib's versions, one for the latest stable OpenH323, and 
>> one for Opal as a development branch.
>> The h323plus is also not stable yet, and they still change kind of a lot 
>> of the API.
>>     
>
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