Barry Fawthrop wrote:
> Hi Tom and All
>
> If someone wants to give me a rough guide as to what is required, and
> how to approach it. I would be more than willing to throw my support
> behind the whole project
>
> Hey Kristian what is required ?
>
> Thank
> Barry
>
Barry (and others),
As Darrick pointed out, Sangoma has an EXCELLENT software installation
and configuration mechanism. It works perfectly on every machine, every
Linux distro, etc that I have ever tried to run it on. However, this
comes at a sacrifice - it makes a lot of assumptions about the location
of files on the system and was not designed to support cross compiling.
It is also quite large. The Setup script is several thousand lines long.
I have been able to get it to compile against recent versions of
AstLinux. However, my current solution requires a HUGE amount of
patching. Every time Sangoma releases a new version, which is often
(that's a good thing), there is a good chance that I would have to
rework significant portions of the patch. This requires a lot of time,
and I don't want to end up in a situation (like with mISDN lately) where
it takes so much time it can't be done reliably from release to release.
mISDN was missing from a couple of releases, but now it is back.
That is not acceptable to me and I want to work very hard to make sure
something like that never happens again.
As of yesterday, Sangoma has promised me a donation (presumably) for
working on this issue. No bounty is necessary, and I won't take any
donations from you guys for this. Thank Sangoma for doing the right
thing and supporting AstLinux directly!
--
Kristian Kielhofner
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