Bertrand LUPART

We were looking for a replacement for our current shitty noname H323 IP phones. Communication quality was awfull, no call forward, bugs in the H323 firmwares, shity keys… The phone itself didn't hangup properly.

We bought a single Polycom Soundpoint IP 301 to test against asterisk using SIP. The itself is really nice: looks solid, nice keys, nice display. The communication quality is excellent.

We are doing more testing at the moment, but we may choose to migrate to asterisk/SIP with this phone really soon.

There have been quite some interresting and construtive traffic recently on the caudium-devel mailing list:

• January: http://lists.oav.net/wws/arc/caudium-devel/2006-01/
• February: http://lists.oav.net/wws/arc/caudium-devel/2006-02/

This has lead to a nice cleanup of Caudium parts written in C that were leaking memory.

We're waiting to see the results on some servers running on Caudium 1.5.1-CVS, but i'm quite excited to backport these changes on Caudium 1.4 and upgrade my production servers.

New Pike release candidate available on http://pike.ida.liu.se/pub/pike/beta/7.6.64/Pike-v7.6.64.tar.gz

Fink package for MacOS X 10.4 based on previous version seems to work flawlessly.

The info and patch files should be available in Pike's CVS soon.

The Fink info file for nettle has been upgraded to 1.14 and submitted to the fink team:

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1358218&group_id=17203&atid=414256

Long time i hadn't updated the Caudium Fink package. Actually, i didn't did that since RC2.

Some fixes in Pike and Caudium makes the upgrade to Caudium 1.4.6 and Pike 7.6.58 quite valuable.

The caudium1.4.info and caudium1.4.patch are available from the Caudium CVS in the stable_1_4 branch. If you don't want to set up CVS just for downloading these files, you can download can be download them there: http://cvsweb.caudiumforge.net/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/caudium/packages/darwin/Attic/?cvsroot=caudium;only_with_tag=stable_1_4

You'll need the pike7.6.info and pike7.6.patch from the Pike CVS: http://pike.ida.liu.se/development/cvs/browse.xml?dir=7.6/packaging/fink&module=Pike

There's a new release of Pike planned soon. Current candidate is http://pike.ida.liu.se/pub/pike/beta/7.6.58/Pike-v7.6.58.tar.gz . Here's a Fink package for building it.

What's new in this package?

• Some parts of the patch i stole from the debian package have been included in the mainstream Pike. Thus, the Fink patch file is quite smaller.
• Now stop to BuildDepends on fileutils. The ls provided with Tiger (10.4) doesn't suffer from the wrong return code anymore. People who will want to build the package from source using Panther (10.3) will require fileutils for building Java.
• Now Depend on gmp-shlibs. As a result, pike7.6-xface disappear (it's included in pike7.6).
• License change, to make fink validate happy.
• make command line have been tidied up and made very less verbose.

The info and patch files have been sent to the Pike mailing list for inclusion in the CVS.

As usual, put both files in /sw/fink/dists/local/main/finkfinfo. Then use fink install -b pike7.6-7.6.58

Already a 5th version of the pike7.6 fink package, and it's still not ready for being submitted to the fink team.

What's new?

• The paths mentionned in the man page now correspond to those actually used by fink.
• Support for GLUT, while not tested. I'm looking for GLUT code or a testsuite.
• Fixed a bug in the alternatives for hilfe and the pike man page.
• The include prefix is now /sw/include/pike/pike7.6/, so that it should not conflict anymore with other Pike versions. The code for this was shamelessly taken from the excellent pike7.6 Debian packages from Marek Habersack (keep up the good work, grendel!). It should now be possible to have pike7.4 and pike7.6 packages installed on the same machine.

This version now have a patch file containing the changes for the man page and the include_prefix stuff.

Since i don't have write access to the Pike CVS repository, i'll post them on the pike-devel mailing list or ask Bill to commit them for me.

The second attempt for doing a nettle still suffered two bugs. A packager's life is not that easy ;)

A major one, where the gmp dependency was not placed in the good SplitOff and a minor one, where the nettle-bin SplitOff wasn't shipped with its documentation.

The new info file has been submitted to the fink team. I hope that one will be ok and included in the fink tree.

The first attempt of the nettle fink package has been reviewed by the fink team under 36 hours.

Daniel Macks (dmacks) found 8 improvements to be made to this tiny package! I can't imagine how much they will find out once i'll submit the huge pike7.6 one :)

The change have been made immediately and i uploaded another version of the nettle package.

I just submitted a new info file for nettle in fink's package submission tracker. It's entry number is 1358218.
The status can be viewed at http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1358218&group_id=17203&atid=414256

The goal is to have the nettle library in fink so that the pike7.6 packages can depend on it. There's still the option of using the bundle included in the pike 7.6 sources, but bundles look like broken on darwin, and having nettle as a separate package looks nicer to me.

Nettle don't support shared/dynamic libraries under darwin for now. This package contains only a statics library archive.