On 21 February 2016 at 19:06, Ken Rice <krice@freeswitch.org> wrote:
The problem here is the shear number of things to be installed on non-debian platforms is still tbd in most cases forfull support.
Yep, that's all true. Not everyone will need/want video calling on their freeswitch, though. If the instructions to build from source are outdated/hard to find, it will only difficult for other distros and *BSDs to try getting video working.
Why no feature parity? Unfortunately there are libs available on debian that the other distros leave out that due to current licensing issues we can not distribute. This is completely a legal exposure issue for the project not a technical one.
The libraries are open source, right? Can links to the source be provided so others can try compiling on their OS? Is the source in FreeSWITCH's repo at https://freeswitch.org/stash/projects/SD for any OS or just for debian? I think it would be useful to have a document that explains what dependency is for what so that users would know what libraries are needed to compile certain features. thanks!