[Freeswitch-users] PA and ALSA

[Sergey Okhapkin]

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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