Re: DBus APIs

[Denis Kenzior <denkenz@gmail.com>]

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Hi Sebastian,

On Wednesday 13 May 2009 10:17:50 Sebastian Mancke wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just saw the new project and was wondering why there is a completely
> new project for this purpose.
>
> For me, ofone looks very similar to the freesmartphone.org initiative.
> Did you take a deep look into other existing projects? What are your
> opinions not to join those efforts?

We had a very deep look actually, and not only freesmartphone, but also 
Qtopia.  These projects are very similar to oFono on the surface, but their 
APIs just do not fill our needs.  E.g. to have a telephony stack that is GCF-
certification ready and can be used by UI developers with minimal effort on 
their part.

In the case of Qtopia it carries too much legacy baggage. In the case of FSO: 
any API that exposes such low-level details as SMS DCS will never be good 
enough.  UI developers simply should never have to care.

>
> In the case of freesmartphone.org I appreciate the goal of focusing on
> the design of the DBus APIs, instead of 'just' an implementation. It
> would be really cool to get alternative Implementations (e.g. written in
> C) for those APIs. On the other hand it would be too bad not to regard
> the experiences they made.

You're assuming that oFono developers do not have previous telephony 
experience themselves.  Not a fair assumption at all ;)  We have our own ideas 
and as pointed out above, we did learn from the FSO project.

Regards,
-Denis