[Asterisk-Users] Chan_Woomera beta released at www.pbxfreeware.org

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 03:44:34PM -0500, Brian West wrote:
> Considering the fact that chan_woomera WORKS!  Have you taken the  
> time to learn what woomera is and how it works?  If not you shouldn't  
> comment on it.

Yes, I've tries. I found a tarball with an implementation of chan_woomra
and a document that specifies how woomra behaves. Basically nothing,
though, about what it is good for. Nor is there a link to any server
implementing it.

> 
> Woomera abstracts the complexities of h323(or other protocols) into  
> the woomera process which is totally external to asterisk which means  
> less complexity inside of asterisk thus it works better.   
> chan_woomera speaks exactly one codec, signed linear.  The external  
> woomera process takes care of the rest.  Right now woomera (the  
> server daemon) speaks h323 right now.  Soon that will change and will  
> soon know how to speak SIP and maybe IAX2.  But to chan_woomera they  
> all look the same, act the same and have no differences in how they  
> operate.  This removes a lot of the complexities of the protocols.

Moves, rather than removes.

I tend to suspect that everything that comes from the house of openh323
will be overabstracting. That is the nice communication library that
depends on practically any graphic library on my system (aalib included)
to build? Not to mention having the wrong license, patent-wise.

I don't have anything wiser to say about OPAL itself, as I've spent the
last 20 minutes searching for information about it. Basically Nada. 

So if you want the attention of other developers, please give some
concrete reasons.

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