Also agree with Alex.. 2009/2/26 Kenny <ken.bell...@gmail.com>
> Hi, > > I support Alex because this can easily be resolved at the application > level. Several countries may as well have other requirments and would > this mean having patches for all the countries? > > > On 2/26/09, Alexander Malysh <amal...@kannel.org> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > distro packages have nothing todo with this hack. > > > > Kannel has following rule: > > no specific workarounds (and this hack is only India specific and > is > > only for commercial MT) > > > > If we break this rule we have to do more work to allow all the needed > > workarounds and maintain these, > > what is the real work. > > > > The second think about this patch: why should this go into SMPP > > module? why it's not possible to do > > at application level before submitting message to kannel? I really > > don't see reason to accept this patch. > > > > Thanks, > > Alex > > > > Am 26.02.2009 um 08:09 schrieb Enver ALTIN: > > > >> Hi Stipe, > >> > >> At first glance, my reaction was neutral like you but then I think > >> somehow it needs to go in. > >> > >> A comfortable Kannel experience today is to download the source code > >> from CVS, build and use that. This was how a Slackware or Gentoo user > >> would get things done nearly a decade ago, but things change. > >> > >> There are excellent distributions like Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora and > >> SuSE; > >> and that's what people actually use. If there is a Kannel package > >> provided by their distribution of choice, they use that. > >> > >> Now, think about people from India. You're really putting a > >> roadblock on > >> their way. They just can't use the OpenSolaris package as it is, if > >> there's one, they'll have to rebuild it. And it's really dumb to have > >> development tools installed on a production server, for many reasons. > >> > >> Short story, it should be in. > >> > >> PS: We really should start encouraging people to use distro packages > >> at > >> some point. > >> > >> On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 16:34 +0100, Stipe Tolj wrote: > >>> Hi list, > >>> > >>> according to the TRAI, all SMSC in India need to use prefixes in > >>> TON=5 > >>> (alphanumeric) source addresses since 2009-02-01. > >>> > >>> Please find a corresponding patch against 1.4.3 and CVS HEAD at > >>> > >>> > >>> http://www.kannel.org/~tolj/patchsets/TRAI/<http://www.kannel.org/%7Etolj/patchsets/TRAI/> > >>> > >>> along with the official direction statement of the TRAI. > >>> > >>> I'm not sure if we want to "mainline" this into CVS, since it > >>> exposes another > >>> config directive to the smsc group. But as this is of general > >>> interest to all > >>> users from India, please feel free to incorporate the patch to your > >>> production > >>> systems. > >>> > >>> Any opinions if we want this (or modified) to go into CVS? I'm +0 > >>> on it, not > >>> really sure and want to hear some opinions from the group. > >>> > >>> Stipe > >>> > >> > >> -- > >> Enver > >> > >> > > > > > > > > > -- > > > -- > Regards, > Kenny > p: +2348034939090, +919948701337 > e: ke...@nuobjects.com > w: http://www.nuObjects.com > > Enterprise SMS Solutions | Managed Hosting | Enterprise Software > Development | eCommerce Application Development > > -- Donald Jackson http://www.ddj.co.za/ donaldjster(a)gmail.com
