Vivian, On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 09:22:39AM +0100, Vivian Meazza wrote: [...] > > channels. I'm > > > not aware of any client that can be driven in this way, and > > I'm almost > > > sure that there's nothing cross-platform to fit the bill. You could > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > This has concerned me for some time on this development. > > > > rip the SIP code out of something like Twinkle, but I'd > > advise against > > > that for one simple reason: getting VOIP working > > (especially SIP) is > > > hard enough when you've got a full-featured softphone or ATA or IP > > > phone. Stick things behind a façade like a FlightGear radio and it > > > will be all the more difficult to troubleshoot and 60%-70% > > will simply > > > be unable to get it working. I know that sounds like exaggerated > > > pessimism, but in my experience there's always *something* > > that goes > > > wrong in configuring VOIP. > > > > I don't think that all implementations of FGCOM will work out > > of the box. The real problem is that I cannot distribute a > > static binary - it won't work at this time (and I don't know > > why) - everyone has to compile the sources. But my hope is > > that it will work for 90% of the users who know gcc and how > > to install libraries. > > > > That would be 90% of the 10% who aren't Windows users then? Don't forget > that by far the majority of our users out there are on Windows, as opposed > to the developers for whom the ratio is probably reversed. We are > cross-platform, and anything you develop should ideally conform to this > policy. I do appreciate that this might be impracticable at this time.
Ok, I thaught that there are not so much more Windows users than *nix. But even more Windows users than I thaught are not the really problem, because I think that everything I wrote _is_ portable. The problem is that I cannot check this because I have no idea and time (and at least interest) in compiling under Windows. But the fact is: - (lib)iaxclient is portable - libxml is also portable (and maybe replaced by an own implementation soon) - and my C code is only glue between the libraries and some simple math. There is nothing more than this! The main work (the VoIP client) is done inside iaxclient (so I am the big blender: everyone thinks I am a guru in writing VoIP applications but I only use (GPL) software and put some code around :-) ). What is definitely not portable is the VoIP-Server. Even the code is actualy only working under Linux it may run under Windows. Lets start with one OS and if it works lets try to port it. Regards, Holger -- ##### #### ## ## Holger Wirtz Phone : (+49 30) 884299-40 ## ## ## ### ## DFN-Verein Fax : (+49 30) 884299-70 ## ## #### ###### Stresemannstr. 78 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ## ## ## ## ### 10963 Berlin ##### ## ## ## GERMANY WWW : http://www.dfn.de GPG-Fingerprint: ABFA 1F51 DD8D 503C 85DC 0C51 E961 79E2 6685 9BCF ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
