[packman] request for packages

[Pascal Bleser]

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Marcus Rueckert wrote:
> On 2006-05-24 13:26:09 -0500, Adrian Jadic wrote:
>> Would it be possible to add some more SIP clients like Wengo, Gizmo, Twinkle?
> 
> gizmo is not opensource afaik.

Correct. The nice thing about Gizmo is that they use standards like SIP
and are compatible with Asterisk, for example, but it's closed-source
freeware.

Adrian, there are "SUSE Linux 10.0+" RPMs on the Gizmo download page:
http://www.gizmoproject.com/download-linux.html

>> SIP is rather hot these days and Packman has a rather limited offering.
> 
> agreed but we should focus on opensource clients than.

Indeed. But.. well... "offering"... we're not selling anything ;)

We do have Ekiga:
http://packman-test.links2linux.org/package/ekiga

OSS alternatives to Ekiga are Twinkle and KPhone. You know any others ?

>> now Wengo has a new version 2.0 that is only available as a binary archive.

Again, they also have an RPM:
http://download.wengo.com/wengophone/beta/WengoPhone-2.0-beta1-linux-bin-x86.tar.bz2
(I guess the RPM is inside the tarball, at least they advertise it's an
RPM ;))

> uhm not opensource either?

Wengo is open-source, they just don't make it very easy to get the
sources from the download page.

One can grab the sources from their SVN repository:
http://dev.openwengo.com/trac/openwengo/trac.cgi/browser/wengophone-ng/trunk

Wengophone is GPL:
http://dev.openwengo.com/trac/openwengo/trac.cgi/browser/wengophone-ng/trunk/wengophone/COPYING

> you would need permission to redistribute their stuff than. doesnt sound
> like stuff you want to go through.

AFAICS only Gizmo falls out, because it's not opensource. The others are.

Richard Bos (rbos) already has some RPMs of twinkle:
http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/apt/SuSE/10.1-i386/RPMS.suser-rbos/
(only has 0.7, latest is 0.7.1)

cheers
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