On 01/26/2011 01:12 PM, Tom Rymes wrote:
On 01/26/2011 1:49 PM, Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
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Steve did not write res_fax (which where SendFAX and ReceiveFAX come
from)
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I am personally a little confused here, because I have a ReceiveFAX
application when I unload the res_fax module and res_fax_digium module
and load the app_fax module. In other words, I think that multiple
modules provide applications named ReceiveFax and SendFAX.
Am I correct to infer that using app_fax.so is no longer recommended and
that res_fax.so with res_fax_spandsp.so -OR- res_fax_digium.so is now
the way to go?
That is correct. app_fax is deprecated (and that is why it is marked as
"don't build" by default), and res_fax plus a technology module
(res_fax_spandsp or res_fax_digium) is the replacement for it. All of
the work that the Digium team has done improving T.38 negotiation and
interoperability has gone into res_fax, not app_fax. Users of Asterisk
1.8.x should only choose to build app_fax if they have a specific need
for it (and if that's the case we'd like to know what the need is so we
can ensure that res_fax can satisfy it). Users of older Asterisk
releases will have app_fax by default (since res_fax was not included in
those versions), but if they want to use Digium's res_fax_digium module
they can download it along with res_fax and use them instead.
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