[reSIProcate] Hi guys, am I in the right place?

[Henrik Ingo]

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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