[Freeswitch-users] PA and ALSA

[Anthony Minessale]

Anything is possible if we get patches to make it configurable and our
preferences are the default.


On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 7:32 PM, Sergey Okhapkin
<sos at sokhapkin.dyndns.org> wrote:
> The power of gentoo linux is that ebuild can specify a range of required
> versions for a third party library. Maybe something can be implemented in FS
> build script too? Just check a version of the installed third party library in
> configure script.
>
> On Sunday 13 March 2011, Anthony Minessale wrote:
>> 2 things to keep in mind.
>>
>> 1 Try to wrap your head around making a stable application that runs on
>> windows, unix including mac and some bsd, and unix-like distros such as
>> those mentioned.  Not all of our dependancies are stable on all of those
>> platforms or even easily available in some cases.
>>
>> 2 This is a community project, if some versions of libraries we are using
>> are older maybe they have been working fine or the modules are not used
>> enough to warrant attention.
>>
>> The normal process would be:
>>
>> The guy reports a problem and suggests its fixed in a newer version.  Now
>> try this code on every supported platform and make sure it works across the
>> board, if not, well, we can't blindly add it.  All of this can be done
>> without the ungrateful cracks and side stories about gentoo and we can
>> happily update the code.
>>
>> I don't go to gentoo forum and complain that custom patching the kernel and
>> libc annoys me or about how I am not interested in being forced into their
>> religion to have my software in their distro even though it does not
>> install any third party libs, FS only static links in bits of code from in
>> tree depends.
>>
>> Furthermore, we constantly invite people to assist with platform and
>> packaging and nobody offers anything but complaints.
>>
>> An example of why we don't just blindly use system libs:
>> The latest sqlite causes 25% loss in performance and guarenteed segfaults
>> and occasional deadlock under load.
>> This is a place where people complain about 1% cpu usage.
>>
>> Alsa mod is specifically for the nokia N800 N810 devices.
>> Stick with pa or help us write something new from scratch and don't forget
>> linux is not alone in the computing world.
>>
>> On Mar 13, 2011 6:22 PM, "Sergey Okhapkin" <sos at sokhapkin.dyndns.org> wrote:
>> > The attempt to isolate core FS code from third party libraries has been
>>
>> done
>>
>> > by gentoo linux team already (inclusion of third party open source code
>> > is strictly against gentoo philosophy), but the attempt has been
>> > abandoned because of lack of support from upstream.
>> >
>> > On Sunday 13 March 2011 19:05:17 Jeff Lenk wrote:
>> > > I'm sure there were very good reasons for these decisions when they
>> > > were made. So rather than criticizing those decisions why not help by
>> > > finding the problems and submitting patches to fix them.
>> > >
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