Bug#153564: ohphone Still valid?

[Eugen Dedu]

Hello Diana,

Sorry, there is something I do not understand: you say that applications 
like yate do not use opal.  Then why is ptlib 2.0.1 needed, as it is 
used only by opal and opal is needed only by ekiga (which does not need 
that version of ptlib)?

Diana Cionoiu wrote:
> Hello Eugen,
> 
> The problem is that applications like Yate can't migrate to Opal.
> The basic library for OpenH323 and Opal is PWLib which makes things 
> complicated.
> The reason why Yate can't migrate to Opal is because the h323 protocol 
> of Opal is not stable and the rest of the protocols have their own 
> implementations in Yate.
> Except Ekiga nobody uses Opal therefor software for gateways like 
> Asterisk or Yate don't really have support for it. It's fine to use it 
> for a client but not stable enough for a gateway.
> 
> Diana
> 
> Eugen Dedu wrote:
>> Mark Purcell wrote:
>>> On Monday 27 April 2009 00:17:57 Eugen Dedu wrote:
>>>> ptlib fixes many bugs with each release (I hope it is better and better
>>>> :o)).  This bug should be fixed by upstream, so I want to inform them
>>>> about it.
>>>
>>> Hi Eugen,
>>>
>>> ohphone was developed as a component of openh323.
>>>
>>> openh323 seems to of forked upstream into h323plus which provides the 
>>> replacement for the openh323 applications:
>>>
>>> http://www.h323plus.org/source/
>>>
>>> Apps such as asterisk/ gnugk et al seems to be either able to build 
>>> with the older openh323/ptlib (1.10.10) combination or the newer (but 
>>> still old) h323plus/ptlib (2.0.1) combination. Ideally these apps 
>>> would support opal rather than running on with h323plus.
>>>
>>> I haven't had any joy getting h323plus build with ptlib (2.6.x). :-(
>>>
>>> My plan for migration is to get ptlib (2.0.1) included in debian (pkg-
>>> voip/ptlib/branches/ptlib-2.0.1) and h323plus, which will allow us to 
>>> retire ptlib (1.10.10), ptlib-titan (1.11) & openh323.
>>>
>>> This will allow pkg-voip to upgrade openmcu, simph323, openam, and 
>>> t38modem to their 2008 baselines.
>>
>> Are these applications worth the effort to be packaged/updated if even 
>> upstream abandoned them one year ago?  Let them rest in peace :o)
>>
>> People with lenny will use them almost 2 years from now on (until next 
>> stable).  People with testing/unstable will refuse to remove them upon 
>> upgrading.
>>
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