[asterisk-users] no unicall on 1.4

[Barzilai Spinak]

Last week I spent a couple of nights understanding and modifying libmfcr2.
After a few hours, the almost comment-free code starts to make sense 
(although I would have done many things differently).
As far as I understand it, most (affected/complaining) people are mostly 
interested in the MFC/R2 aspect of Underwood's libraries so they can 
have their R2 E1 cards working under Asterisk.
This is most of the world (not just third world countries).

libmfcr2 depends on spandsp (DSP processing), and libunicall (call 
management).
The part that *actually* interfaces with Asterisk is the "chan_unicall".

So, *I think* there's no need to maintain and adapt the full stack, but 
only the "chan_unicall" because MAYBE the Asterisk channel API changed 
(a little, a lot???) from 1.2.x to 1.4.x.
Maybe a little debugging of libmfcr2 also...

With enough time I could help, but I'm trying to move away from 
telephony right now... I have other projects and areas of interest...


Now, the two unanswered questions:

1) Why is Steve stopping support for Asterisk?  I understand he may be 
fed up with Asterisk... but probably he can fix it or half-fix it for 
1.4 in a couple of days, then the rest of us can debug it.
2) Why is it that Digium never gave a damn about E1/MFC/R2 and we have 
to use these hybrid combinations of libraries?

BarZ


Moises Silva wrote:
> On 1/3/07, Anton Krall <akrall at intruder.com.mx> wrote:
>> And probably wont be as Steve Underwood explained to me that he is 
>> now supporting openpbx and has stopped support for unicall on 
>> asterisk 1.4
>>
>> Can anybody at digium confirm? Is unicall going to be left out of 1.4?
>
> This has nothing to do with Digium, it has to do with anybody wanting
> to code the version for 1.4, AFAIK Steve never worked for Digium and
> Digium never distributed Unicall driver.
>
> Porting Unicall to 1.4 is in my TODO since 1 month ago, may be this
> month I will have the time to give a look at the code and try to make
> it work on 1.4, if somebody else cant do it before.
>
> Regards.
>