[Freeswitch-users] FS 1.6 multi-platform build without video

Oleg Stolyar olegstolyar at gmail.com
Sun Nov 22 22:22:20 MSK 2015


Thanks Ken, I contacted FS Consulting.

On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 10:38 AM, Ken Rice <krice at freeswitch.org> wrote:

> 1.4   is reaching EoL due to the ongoing difficulty of backporting many
> patches from the master and 1.6 branchs.
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> The 1.6 branch will build on other platforms. You mileage will vary (hint
> we’re already making and distributing RPMs for Centos7 via the FreeSWITCH
> Yum Repos)
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> The 1.6 branch builds on Windows.
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> What we have said is that if you want 100% full support the dependency
> chain for non-Debian platforms needs to be worked out. Centos6 is so old at
> this point, that many of the dependencies are out of date or just out right
> broken. We have in the FreeSWITCH Stash Server provided sources for
> everything we have had to update and package to get things building on
> Debian 8  and Centos7.
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> Centos7 also requires EPEL, Debian7 may work, but it requires backports
> and additional packages…
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> Other platforms such as Ubuntu we avoid due to numerous issues that the
> Core Team does not have the resources to track down all the issues as they
> all appear to be system library related. (same exact code on other distros
> is not broken, but it falls over on Ubuntu leaving nowhere to point but
> underlying libraries)
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> That being said on 1.6 some of the dependencies are required just for the
> core to build.
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> No one is saying that you cant use the other platforms, what the Core FS
> Team has been saying is that we (the Core Team) supports Debian 8 going
> forward as we recommended using Debian 7 before. The community is more than
> welcome to offer patches, documentation, etc. on the other platforms. This
> is why we have Jira for opening Tickets, Stash for Source Management where
> you can create your own fork and do Pull Requests, and Confluence where you
> can join the Docs Team and offer up additional documentation for the help
> of the entire community.
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> Let’s not Forget that FreeSWITCH the code base is Open Source, and yes the
> FreeSWITCH Team basically gives it away for free. However the entire Team
> has Families and bills that still need to get taken care of and there are
> only so many hours in a day.
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> If you as an individual want to help out Please Do. If you work at a
> business using FreeSWITCH, please get your management to contact
> consulting at freeswitch.org and start a discussion on sponsoring parts of
> FreeSWITCH or even a support agreement with the team. These things go a
> long way in helping not only the Core Team, but also in helping us secure
> addition resources to keep making the code and documentation better.
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> *From:* freeswitch-users-bounces at lists.freeswitch.org [mailto:
> freeswitch-users-bounces at lists.freeswitch.org] *On Behalf Of *Oleg Stolyar
> *Sent:* Sunday, November 22, 2015 11:10 AM
> *To:* FreeSWITCH Users Help <freeswitch-users at lists.freeswitch.org>
> *Subject:* [Freeswitch-users] FS 1.6 multi-platform build without video
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> Hi guys,
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> There are several threads going on about FS 1.4 end-of-life and the fact
> that 1.6 can currently only be built on the latest Debian.
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> I wonder if a compromise is possible.
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> My understanding from previous discussions (please correct me if this is
> wrong) is that the reason for the Debian requirement is the new video
> related features that require some of the latest dependencies which are
> hard to figure out.
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> Would it be feasible/easy to create a build that would not have video
> features but would build on all the same platforms as 1.4?
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> If this is doable, then people who want to use the latest video feature
> would know that they need to either use Debian or do the legwork to port to
> their platform but everyone who just want the latest non-video features and
> bug fixes won't live in fear of 1.4 end-of-life.
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> Does the core team think it's possible?  I'd be happy to contribute to it
> with several of my support incidents or may be able to swing a reasonable
> bounty.
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