[Spice-devel] [PATCH] make celt to be optional

[Gerd Hoffmann]

  Hi,

>> More official than the codec working group declaring it to be in its
>> finally frozen form, or the codec specification being submitted to and
>> approved by the IESG for publication?
> 
> You keep refering to standards, while I am talking about what we can
> actually rely on, the implementation.

I'd be very surprised if the most recent opus release doesn't conform to
the submitted specification.  Guess the 1.0 release just waits for the
formal approval & publication

>>> This is not helping, we have implementations not really frozen.

???

Can't see what your problem is ...

>>> Since no releases happened recently, I assume no security issues are known.
>>
>> That's an interesting assumption ...
> 
> Isn't it how security works? It's safe until it's proven it's no
> longer, isn't it?

For a piece of software not being actively maintained any more by anyone
I wouldn't bet on it.

> Spice depends on celt 0.5.1, people do care.

What kind of care, beyond packaging & using it?

>> It's your decision what you do with spice.  But saying "Opus isn't ready yet"
>> is simply not true.  You may have other reasons not to use it, but that isn't
>> one of them that stands up to genuine scrutiny.
> 
> Personally, I would be glad to have opus support once there is an
> implementation the spice server can rely on.

IMHO we should undust Alons opus patches *now* and get stuff ready.
Given the sample rate issue a bit more work that just switching the
codec, so it will need some time anyway.

cheers,
  Gerd