Jingle builds of Psi and Kopete for Fedora Core 4

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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...
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