[asterisk-r2] OpenR2 release candidate and development ideas feedback

[Moises Silva]

Luis

Drop your ideas here to discuss them! :-)

On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 8:14 AM, Luis Morales <fastonion at gmail.com> wrote:
> Moy,
>
> I'm on Venezuela and i have access to r2 telephony system providers.
>
> I have an couple of ideas to extend r2 project.
>
> Regards,
>
> Luis Morales
>
> On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 6:34 PM, Moises Silva <moises.silva at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Probably some of you already know it, the first release candidate for
>> openr2 is out there in google code:
>> http://code.google.com/p/openr2/downloads/list
>>
>> Also, I'd like to ask for opinions and probably any volunteer coders
>> here. Currently there is a couple of activities that I have in mind.
>>
>> 1. Windows and/or Mac OS build.
>> 2. Asterisk patches.
>> 3. DTMF/R2 support (Venezuela users mostly).
>>
>> The number one is about making openr2 code to build in Windows or Mac
>> OS. Or both :)
>>
>> The second project is less time consuming (I think), the idea is
>> create a doc/asterisk/patches directory where other directories will
>> exists, one directory for each major release of Asterisk. 1.2, 1.4 and
>> 1.6. Now that we have the first release candidate of openr2 it would
>> be easier to have patches for Asterisk and not just the SVN branches I
>> have been providing. So, one directory could be:
>>
>> doc/asterisk/1.4/1.4.22/
>>
>> And put the required patches, or even better, an already modified for
>> R2 chan_dahdi.c/chan_zap.c along with a Makefile to compile using the
>> Asterisk headers. That way a user can easily do this:
>>
>> # cd doc/asterisk/1.4/1.4.22/
>> # make
>> # make install
>>
>> And that make install would copy the created R2-enabled chan_dahdi.so
>> to /usr/lib/asterisk/modules replacing the old and not-R2 enabled
>> chan_dahdi.so included with Asterisk.
>>
>> The other option is not include chan_zap.c or chan_dahdi.c modified
>> there, but just include a patch for users to apply.
>>
>> The advantage of having the modified chan_zap.c/chan_dahdi.c with a
>> Makefile is that no patching is required, users just replace their old
>> chan_zap.so/chan_dahdi.so with "make install" with the R2-enabled one.
>> The disadvantage is that a directory would be needed each time a new
>> Asterisk release goes out. But I really like this approach better over
>> the patching.
>>
>> The advantage with the patch, is that as long as the patch applies
>> cleanly to newer Asterisk versions, there is no need to do anything,
>> but in any moment a patch does not apply or causes undesired
>> side-effects (like segfaulting) there will be needed to create a new
>> directory with a new patch for the new Asterisk version.
>>
>> Comments, ideas?
>>
>> If there is anyone willing to work in some of this sub-projects, it
>> will be my pleasure to provide access to an SVN branch in the
>> development openr2 repository to work on.
>>
>> Moy
>>
>> --
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>> death your right to say it." Voltaire
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