Well once you start diverging from the kannel release branch to support our
telco's unique quirks (patches), then aint it the same as building your own
gateway at the very least?

Like i said, we forked kannel to PHP, its the same algorithms with changes
to queuing. Ofcourse we can no longer go back to kannel's main branch if the
new release becomes available. At the same time any changes we added are
categorized proprietary so we cant submit them kannel to be added back to
the branch. Actually if my memory serves me right, Dido mentioned that he
did try submitting patches to the kannel dev to be added to the main release
branch but it was rejected. Even if you read the mailing list, a lot of
people has made patches (also found a patch about weighted load balancing)
but the people maintaining kannel has rejected it as well citing numerous
philosophical  design differences between the maintainer and contributors.
This is what i meant when i said Kannel cannot be fully controlled.

On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 9:27 PM, Orlando Andico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

> It's not that you can't fully control Kannel --- it's open source.
>
> It's that Kannel is written a certain way and is difficult to modify.
> Plus it's in C, with all the pitfalls and gotchas inherent in that
> approach.
>
> My former employer did everything in Perl. And it scaled extremely well.
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 5:45 PM, Roger Filomeno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> > Sorry for the rants of kannel, im not discrediting it. I just wanted to
> > point out that its not the solution in all cases especially with what
> Mark
> > wanted -- a sort of SMSC-to-SMSC relay.
> >
> > As pointed out by Orly, half of the solution is out there so why not
> build
> > your own than rely on something that you cannot fully control like
> Kannel.
> > Surely with such requirement as Mark posted, the project should be big
> and
> > surely they have the technical power to build something that do what it
> > should do than use Kannel that does only half. :D
> _________________________________________________
> Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List
> [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph)
> Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists
> Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
>



-- 
--
Roger P. Filomeno
International Project Manager
TechBiz Asia Group Pte Ltd

http://corruptedpartition.blogspot.com/
send MSG GODIE <YOUR MESSAGE> to 2948

$> who | grep -i blond | date; cd ~; unzip; touch; strip; finger; mount;
gasp; yes; uptime; umount; sleep
_________________________________________________
Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List
[email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph)
Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists
Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph

Reply via email to