I just came across Fax for Asterisk. It is free for a single channel. Are
you saying that the binaries that digium provide for download will not work
with Astlinux ?
Thanks
David
On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 10:12 PM, Darrick Hartman <[email protected]
> wrote:
> Tom Lynn wrote:
> > What are the odds the new fax code will make it into Astlinux?
>
> Honestly very slim. It will require a binary blob the same as
> codec_g729.so which we've been lobbying for several years. Basically
> Digium won't do it unless there are enough people from the Astlinux
> community who would use it to justify their resources.
>
> We've made several offers to provide a build environment, but so far,
> it's WAY down on their list if it ever will happen.
>
> I would definitely not hold your breath. I guess Kevin Fleming is the
> person who needs to be convinced there is a need/demand. I have not had
> a chance to contact him directly, but had been working through Jared
> Smith and later John Todd.
>
> When I get a chance, I'll write something to Kevin regarding each of
> these binary blobs. The g729 stuff is the one that burns me the most
> personally because we did gather a fairly significant number of
> signatures several years back and I personally bought several license to
> be used with Astlinux when they did provide the binary for Asterisk 1.2.
> So obviously, they CAN do it, but are currently choosing not to for
> one reason or another. The chan_skype stuff looks interesting (as does
> the fax stuff to a lesser degree for me).
>
> Regards,
>
> Darrick
>
>
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