Michael wrote: > On Sat, 25 Apr 2009 18:20:16 you wrote: > > >> Well the basic reason is that the free software user base sucks. Rather >> than contribute a solution people would rather whine that the whole >> world hasn't been given to them for free. After several years of huge >> numbers of people facing the same issue a clean solution has not made >> its way into the code base, because nobody contributed one. rxfax and >> txfax were never intended to be apps. They were just my little test >> programs top exercise the FAX engine. I navely thought someone would >> take an interest in making a realyl nice app, but nobody has to date. >> Few people even bother reporting bugs, so problems large number of >> people hit stay in all sorts of packages for years, because nobody >> bothered to tell anyone who might have been inclines to fix them. >> > > Your contribution to the fax community has certainly been considerable Steve. > > Regretfully I do not have the level of programming expertise that you do, and > for this reason my contributions are more limited to things like extensively > testing the software with more specialised things like T.38 and reporting > back what I have found. > > I find it highly surprising that you feel no one has taken any interest, > because from my following of the Hylafax and Asterisk lists it appears to me > that there is a real demand out there for T38. > There is plenty of interesting in having a solution, although its interesting to see how little attention Digium's new FAX offering is attracting. What there is not is a willingness to contribute. > Personally I think the fax development time would be best spent finding a > workable way to integrate Hylafax with Asterisk / CW. > IAXmodem and chan_fax already do that. What more are you looking for? I've had a half finished SIPmodem for ages, which is a bit like IAXmodem but uses SIP and allows bother T.38 and audio FAXing (IAXmodem is audio only, as T.38 is not defined over IAX2). I expect that would be a popular option if I ever finished it.
> This way we avoid reinventing the wheel, covering something that is already > has mature handling capabilities of the Hylafax system. > > Michael > > I frequently work with the key developer of HylaFAX+, Lee Howard, and we developed IAXmodem together. I consider the two things complementary. Steve _______________________________________________ Callweaver-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.callweaver.org/mailman/listinfo/callweaver-users
