[reSIProcate] Hi guys, am I in the right place?
Hi guys
It seems to me, that there are great Open Source sip-proxies out there,
but not so many great OSS softphones. Especially if we disregard the
Linux-only ones. SipXPhone is one of the better, but even that falls
into the same category with many freeware phones, they all have a lousy
phone like interface which is not even close to being user friendly. I
would like to see something that could seriously compete with Skype. But
then, who wouldn't... In fact, pulver.Communicator is the only one I
found if we go so far as to accept freeware. (And even that is currently
windows only.) So there is clearly a void to fill here.
So the question is, what would we the easiest road to get there, and how
long will that road be?
Some more specific questions:
1) Outside of Sipfoundry, do you know of any good cross-platform SIP/RTP
stacks that even compete with you? Open Source, obviously.
2) In Sipfoundry we find the SipXtapi suite of libraries, and a more
recent reSIProcate. It seems to me that
* SipXtapi is a fairly easy api, I say "call this person" and the
stack takes care of the rest.
* SipXtapi knows nothing about instant messaging or presence. ("TAPI"
is about phones anyway.)
* reSIProcate does, and is more featureful anyway
* reSIProcate too is quite easy to use, thanks to DUM
* reSIProcate otoh, is only about SIP, so I'll need an RTP stack from
somewhere
The actual question: Have I understood this correctly?
3) Looking at this:
http://warsaw.sjc.purplecomm.com/wiki/index.php?title=Strawman_Task_List
it seems someone might have asked himself these same questions and also
some others I don't even know to ask yet. Final questions therefore: Am
I in the right place asking these questions? Is someone also on his way
doing the best OSS softphone ever on resiprocate? Would it be a good
idea to do that?
henrik ingo
finland, where supposedly our president looks like Conan O'Brien
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