On Sat, 25 Apr 2009 18:20:16 you wrote: > Well the basic reason is that the free software user base sucks. Rather > than contribute a solution people would rather whine that the whole > world hasn't been given to them for free. After several years of huge > numbers of people facing the same issue a clean solution has not made > its way into the code base, because nobody contributed one. rxfax and > txfax were never intended to be apps. They were just my little test > programs top exercise the FAX engine. I navely thought someone would > take an interest in making a realyl nice app, but nobody has to date. > Few people even bother reporting bugs, so problems large number of > people hit stay in all sorts of packages for years, because nobody > bothered to tell anyone who might have been inclines to fix them.
Your contribution to the fax community has certainly been considerable Steve. Regretfully I do not have the level of programming expertise that you do, and for this reason my contributions are more limited to things like extensively testing the software with more specialised things like T.38 and reporting back what I have found. I find it highly surprising that you feel no one has taken any interest, because from my following of the Hylafax and Asterisk lists it appears to me that there is a real demand out there for T38. Personally I think the fax development time would be best spent finding a workable way to integrate Hylafax with Asterisk / CW. This way we avoid reinventing the wheel, covering something that is already has mature handling capabilities of the Hylafax system. Michael _______________________________________________ Callweaver-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.callweaver.org/mailman/listinfo/callweaver-users
