[Slackbuilds-users] Is Ekiga being phased out of SBo

[Sebastian Arcus]

On 22/02/2022 15:17, Heinz Wiesinger wrote:
> On Tuesday, 22 February 2022 14:27:57 CET Sebastian Arcus wrote:
>> I haven't been able to get Ekiga to work any more since end of March
>> 2021 after updating this machine to latest -current (at the time). I
>> eventually managed to get it compiled and installed, but then when
>> trying to connect to any sip account it crashes.
>>
>> When trying to recompile it now I noticed that ponce's SBo git repo now
>> doesn't have Ekiga or Opal any more. Do I take it that Ekiga is now
>> being phased out from SBo? I guess it makes sense as the upstream code
>> hasn't been updated for a few years.
>>
>> I would be ok with switching to another SIP client - but haven't found
>> any so far which actually work properly. Linphone installs fine, but
>> when I try to add a SIP account, it just doesn't do it. No error, nothing.
>>
>> Any suggestions for a SIP client, or how to get Ekiga to work again
>> please? I would prefer a client which supports multiple accounts - but
>> frankly at this stage I would try anything. Thank you.
> 
> There is twinkle:
> 
> https://github.com/LubosD/twinkle
> 
> No SlackBuild for that in the repo, but it seems reasonably active/uptodate.

Thank you for that. I didn't realise there is a new/current version of 
Twinkle. I can confirm I managed to compile and install it, and so far 
it appears to work well. I've added on a ToDo list to try and get a 
script done for SBo and upload it. It would most likely be useful to 
others as well.