[asterisk-users] Unicall, not HOW but WHY

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 05:29:21PM -0500, Moises Silva wrote:
> On 7/20/06, Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir.cohen at xorcom.com> wrote:
> >On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 03:51:25PM -0500, Moises Silva wrote:

> >> >2) Why the Unicall package? Not *how* but *why*.
> >>
> >> You are not forced to use Unicall, but AFAIK, libmfcr2 is the only
> >> MFCR2 open source library and since libmfcr2 was wrote by the same guy
> >> that wrote Unicall telephony abstraction (Steve Underwood), makes
> >> sense to use it. However you can use Asterisk Zapata channels with
> >> MFCR2 support, that way you skip the Unicall thing, however, Zapata
> >> would still be using libmfcr2, and I think there is even less
> >> documentation about using Zapata with libmfcr2 than using Unicall with
> >> libmfcr2.
> >
> >AFAIK, the "MFCR2 support" in chan_zap doesn't actually work and was
> >Steve Underwood's first shot at the problem. I believe it is to be
> >removed from 1.4.
> 
> I really dont know, if it works, but digging into the source for other
> purposes, I just looked a lot of code in chan_zap with ifdefs
> regarding MFCR2.

Some reference: http://bugs.debian.org/342139

MFCR2 support has been patched out of Debian's chan_zap for that reason.
chan_unicall is availble in a separate package.

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