From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============4676466080766027172==" MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Denis Kenzior Subject: Re: DBus APIs Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 11:51:01 -0500 Message-ID: <200905131151.01568.denkenz@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4A0AE49E.8000408@gmx.de> List-Id: To: ofono@ofono.org --===============4676466080766027172== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 GC= F- 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 FS= O: = 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 id= eas = and as pointed out above, we did learn from the FSO project. Regards, -Denis --===============4676466080766027172==--