Re: DBus APIs

[Sebastian Mancke <asteban@gmx.de>]

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Hi Denis,

thanks for the direct answer. I don't wanted to be unfair at all ;-)

I Will take a deeper look into the differences of both DBus APIs to get
a better understanding of your reasons.

Regards,
  Sebastian



Denis Kenzior schrieb:
> 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
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