The gRPC implementation never left the experimental state and never
reached a properly stable state to the point where we would feel good
about enabling it by default. In addition to that, there has been no
further attempts at finding and fixing the encountered issues in the
implementation (except #3947 but that was discontinued).
As such we had an essentially unmaintained piece of code in our server
implementation that was known to be buggy and that nobody wanted to fix.
In addition to that the implementation itself could not be considered
very clean or elegant and therefore only represented a few smelly
corners in our code base.
For this reason, we decided to remove the gRPC support entirely from
Mumble (for now).
What we hope to gain by that is:
- Prevent people from building unstable server versions and then coming
to us complaining that it crashed/misbehaved
- Removing (essentially) dead code
- Reduce the RPC implementation complexity
That last piece is crucial: By removing gRPC support we reduce the
amount of supported RPC frameworks to only one (ignoring DBus for now).
Our future plans include a refactoring of how RPC is being handled and
implemented and only having to worry about maintaining compatibility
with one RPC system is much easier than having to worry about two (with
(slightly) different APIs).
Once the RPC implementation has been rewritten, more RPC backends may be
reintroduced and in that process we might investigate adding a proper
gRPC implementation to the code (that then hopefully is more stable than
the current one).
Fixes#4567Fixes#4197Fixes#3496Fixes#3429Fixes#3265
The concept of RELEASE_ID was dropped with PR #5401 in commit 6caa808e6.
Thus, drop its leftovers from the documentation.
Signed-off-by: Felix Singer <felixsinger@posteo.net>
By default this library is needed as the option overlay-xcompile
defaults to ON. Therefore we should list g++-multilib as a dependency
directly and only mention how to get rid of this dependency, not the
other way around.
This will probably avoid some confusion on the reader's side.
The existing `docs` directory was restructured a bit and the build
documentation previously located at
https://github.com/mumble-voip/mumble-releng-vcpkg was integrated into
the main repository (after having received a good polish).
In addition to that the needed scripts and port-files from the linked
repository have now also been included in the main repo.
