[Psi-Devel] my first post: libjingle and VoIP

[Justin Karneges]

Hi Giovanni,

On Friday 04 January 2008 2:52 pm, Giovanni Venturi wrote:
> I'm looking around for a jabber client that will use the Google libjingle
> and so can let use "VoIP on Jabber". Is planned in Psi ? I've read your
> wiki page but I think it's out of date because the option "--enable-jingle"
> in the configure doesn't work. I downloaded the last SVN Psi version and
> I've see a "configure-jingle" in it. I've seen also the two subdirectory
> "libjingle" and "libjingle.new" in the directory "third-party"...
> I'd like to know if a VoIP version is already available or if it will be.
> Do you need help for Qt programming? I've got some knowledge with Qt4 and
> maybe some spare time (I should) so I'd like give help if needed.

Currently, VoIP in Psi is possible by using configure-jingle (as you have 
found).  This enables the usage of the libjingle library in Psi.  However, 
our work with libjingle is incomplete and we have no plans to work on it 
further.

Future VoIP in Psi will likely be achieved by developing our own Jingle 
implementation based around GStreamer, Phonon, and/or Farsight.

If you just want VoIP working in the short term, and only in your own personal 
Psi builds, then I'd recommend trying out configure-jingle and fixing any 
bugs you encounter until Psi works the way you like.  If you want to assist 
the Psi project in making Jingle a standard feature of stable releases, well, 
that's much harder. :)

-Justin