freepbx packages - soon

[Diego Iastrubni]

Julien BLACHE wrote:

>Diego Iastrubni <diego.iastrubni at xorcom.com> wrote:
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>Hi,
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>>>- did they drop the dependency on php-jpgraph for the CDR part ?
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>>No need to install CDR - we don't have to ship it. You will loose some
>>features, but the basic functionality will work.
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>>Can you elaborate on this subject?
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>Newer versions of jpgraph are non-free. The last GPL version is
>packaged in Debian, but it lacks most of what the CDR needs, so it's
>unusable.
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/me will ask around.

>>>- did they drop the dependency on lame ?
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>>Lame is not needed. As far as I know. Again, more details will be helpful.
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>Lame is/was used in AMPortal to reencode the MOH MP3. MP3 encoders are
>subject to patents, and can't be distributed in Debian.
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First, it was mpg123 :)
Second, on Rapid we use sox.
Third, Asterisk12 can use ogg.

>>>- did they drop the dependency on asterisk-perl ?
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>>nope. dialparties.agi is still working on perl.
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>asterisk-perl has no license attached, AFAIK. It can't even be
>distributed, let alone modified.
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Know this, I am re-writing it to work on php. The license for the php 
connectivity libraries is well defined.

>>Your fixes to the perl scripts are part of freepbx, and Xorcom's
>>version of AMP.
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>I've got a shitload of patches against AMPortal 1.10.008, but the
>AMPortal upstreams did not integrate all of them, and it took them
>MONTHS to integrate the few patches they integrated ... well, too bad
>for AMPortal.
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I have write access to the SVN. In the future, I can commit for you.
The code on freepbx is much cleaner, I can send you the rules files for 
freepbx and amp and you will see that the last version is almost usable 
out of the box. This was due to someone who was sitting on their tail - 
you broke too soon :)