[asterisk-dev] New SIP channel driver project page

[Jeffrey Ollie]

On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 10:02 AM, Russell Bryant
<russell at russellbryant.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 3:48 AM, Saúl Ibarra Corretgé <saghul at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> As Joshua has said earlier, PJSIP is project that is kind of meant to be
>> embedded in applications. The build system only provides static libraries
>> and if you need changes to the library deep down, you need to modify PJSIP
>> itself in a way it may not really benefit anyone.
>
>
> I understand that's how pjsip is currently designed and built.  The problem
> is that it *sucks*.  Hopefully we don't need to argue through all the
> reasons why bundling code is a terrible idea.

Another problem with pjsip is that it requires ffmpeg for video
support.  That's a problem for Fedora and other RedHat-based
distributions because ffmpeg can't be included in Fedora because of
patent and licensing issues around a number of video and audio codecs.

> Given the amount of work involved in building a new channel driver, if pjsip
> was used, putting some effort into making pjsip suck less in being a proper
> library seems worthwhile.

Agreed.

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Jeff Ollie