For those of you who remember way back into the mists of time, last December we released an experimental Psi branch with voice calling thanks to the libjingle library from Google. Well, while no less experimental, I’ve now ported the libjingle support from the psi-jingle branch to Qt4 and have now merged it into mainline, taking the opportunity to also port to the newest version of libjingle.

This means that if you’re the adventurous type, you can now build Psi with voice calling support, and that this will be compatible with Google Talk clients and any other projects which utilise the libjingle code. We’ll be providing (experimental, no support, no warranties and with a very real danger that they’ll eat your pet hippo and kangaroo) builds for Windows and Mac OSX just as soon as we can get support for those platforms working (expect an announcement about OSX from Remko very soon indeed). The code is, as I am repeating far too often, still considered alpha-quality, however, once everything stabalises a bit more we’ll be able to start including support ‘officially’ and hopefully pretty soon, official Psi builds for future versions will be voice-capable.

I hear the sound of bells in the distance, could they be…….jingling?

Categories: Jabber, Psi