Jingle builds of Psi and Kopete for Fedora Core
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Was excited around Christmas to see
the Jingle
signalling protocol for Voice over IP through Jabber, which was
jointly authored by Google and JSF people and is used by
Google Talk.
Google also released an open source library for doing Jingle called
libjingle
This makes it even easier for all the free software instance
messaging clients to get the spec implemented quickly, and they all
seem to have started doing that. Now that Google Talk has also
turned on
XMPP
Federation, this looks like a blast for open protocols to win
the day...
But when I looked at the roadmaps of
Gaim and
Psi, it became clear that although
implementations are there, it'll take a while for these to reach
general release.
Finally got round to trying to build some for myself, and found
that they actually seem to work quite well (at least on my local
network :-)).
Psi's jingle
branch built fairly easily once I had the right dependencies
etc.
I couldn't find instructions on building Gaim with Jingle support,
it seems like they are still working on integrating it (in the
Gaim-VV project), and I liked
using Gaim because I can do IRC, Jabber etc all from the same
client...
So I found
Kopete which is
similarly functional and has
Jingle
support in their development branch.
Building this as an rpm took more work because on Fedora at least,
its part of kdenetwork which is fairly big. Eventually got it
working after learning a fair bit about spec files... (rant: lots
of "HOWTO" documentation, not enough reference
documentation...)
The resulting RPMS, SRPMS and specfiles are all at
http://davidf.sjsoft.com/files/jingle/
... of course I should create a proper package repository but that
can wait for another day...